Penelope

“Believe me, the world won't give you any gifts. If you want to have a life, steal it.”
― Lou Andreas- Salome

“Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and have assumed that the sufferings of adults are the results of the burdens and hardships of reality, it must be asserted that just the opposite is true. What we learn about the child and the adult through psychoanalysis shows that all the sufferings of later life are for the most part repetitions of these earlier ones, and that every child in the first years of life goes through and immeasurable degree of suffering.”
― Melanie Klein

“The most aggressive and therefore the most dangerous words in the languages of the world are to be found in the assertion I AM.”
― Donald Woods Winnicott, Home Is Where We Start from

“In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.”
― Jacques Lacan