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"Suffering and pain are always mandatory for a broad minds and deep hearts. Truly great people, it seems to me, should feel great sadness on this earth."

Everything inside him was at sixes and sevens.

"In the years between the "emancipation" of women won by the feminists and the sexual counterrevolution of the feminine mystique, American women enjoyed a decade-by-decade increase in sexual orgasm."

Capacities clamor to be used, and cease their clamor only when they are well used. That is, capacities are also needs. Not only is it fun to use our capacities, but it is also necessary. The unused capacity or organ can become a disease center or else atrophy, thus diminishing the person.

For, of course, the manufacturer's problem was not to satisfy woman's need for individuality, for expression or creativity, but to sell more patterns-which is better done by building conformity.

Time and time again, the surveys shrewdly analyzed the need. and even the secret frustrations of the American housewife; and each time if these needs were properly manipulated, she could be induced to buy more "things."

"Some social theorists even suspect that the very absence of other concerns, in that dying Austrian empire, caused the sexual preoccupation of Freud's patients."

"I should like a thoroughly bad climate. I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms, for example..."

"Sweat stood in beads on either their foot, rung from my blood by agony."

"Suspicion cannot be overcome by being fed upon untruth itself, and suspicion is the condition of most unbalanced minds. I am convinced that the unhappiness of many such would be greatly decreased if, as nearly as possible, they received at the hands of sane persons the treatment accord to sane persons."

"... strictly speaking, the rash act which followed cannot correctly be called an attempt at suicide- for, how can a man who is not himself kill himself?"

One of the papers was called "Adolescents in Distress and bragged about the "therapeutic possibilities of lobotomy" on children.
He started by observing that a lot of teenagers are anxious, but said this was healthy. "A certain amount of anxiety is good for a boy or a girl, in the same way that a certain amount of fleas is goin a dog— keeps him from thinking about being a dog."

After I had completed the so-called intake period, I was moved do any-to a ward and finally made a friend. His name was Frank. He was Hawaiian. He was into rock 'n' roll, so we got along fine.

James Watt refused to assist with the transorbital procedure, which he said was unprofessional and unsafe. Other colleagues agreed. A hospital medical director, one of Freeman's earlier supporters, wrote to him and said, "What are these terrible things I hear about you doing lobotomies in your office with an ice picke Why not use a shotgun? It would be quicker!"
Freeman was not bothered by these reactions.

Williams said that Freeman hated wasting time on creating a sterile environment for the surgery. He wasn't worried about what he called "all that germ crap," Williams said. "I often had to assert myself, insisting, 'Walter, at least let me drape the patient.'"

"There is something in the case of each of us that escapes the notice of the man who has not experienced it, but causes horror to the man who has."