Patrick O'Donovan

“Not surprisingly, the gender of the actors seems to be one factor that determines whether a particular change is regarded as an example of “Westernization that is disrespectful of our traditions.”
― Uma Narayan, Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism

“In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?”
― Carl R. Rogers

“I should have become an "I" before I became a "we".”
― Irvin Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.”
― Thomas Sowell, A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles