#infancy

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#beauty #body #cage #gilt #infancy

Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time. ↗

— Alice Miller

#adult #client #consciousness #course #early

I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician. ↗

— Gary Numan

#always #anyway #been #before #create

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity. ↗

— Antonio Porchia

#eternal #extreme #infancy #rest

Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life. ↗

— Herbert Read

#adult life #burying #clearly #difficult #disguised

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#between #childhood #folly #human #human life

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#begins #heaven #infancy #lies #lying