John Wallis

“Until they do so they are doomed to labor under the illusion that their own mother's perverse and violent acts toward their being were acts of love and care. This is the situation that commences when a victim of abuse identifies with the object of its legitimate hate. It is a legacy that occurs when the superego rather than the conscience operates as the moral center.”
― Michael Tsarion, Dragon Mother: A New Look at the Female Psyche

“To live consciously means to seek to be aware of everything that bears on our actions, purposes, values, and goals—to the best of our ability, whatever that ability may be—and to behave in accordance with that which we see and know.”
― Nathaniel Branden, The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem

“...the rage that is aroused because their autonomy has been destroyed becomes a destructive drive in its own right and stimulates their desire for power. If nothing happens to relieve their situation – if they are not treated humanely, for example – children soon learn that pain itself is an effective means of gaining power over others. They understand that pain can alter their own mood, and they begin to assume that everyone and everything can be controlled by inflicting it – Arno Gruen”
― Michael Tsarion, Dragon Mother: A New Look at the Female Psyche

“We do not realize that, as a rule, male violence is merely a symptom of psychic violence perpetrated in the dark, as it were, by terrible mothers who go unpunished.”
― Michael Tsarion, Dragon Mother: A New Look at the Female Psyche