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  • God wasgood onthephysical and emotional sides and a great one for hate. He generously spilled his own hate into his dearest creation.

    -Wilson
      Enderby's Dark Lady.

  • BRADYISM: A multisibling sensibility derived from having grown up in large families†symptoms of Bradyism include a facility for mind games, emotional withdrawal in situations of overcrowding, and a deeply felt need for a well-defined personal space.

    - Douglas Coupland
    Generation X,'Define Normal'.

  • With each generation the entire race passes through the body of its womanhood as through a mould, reappearing withtheindeliblemarks ofthat mould upon it, that as the os cervix of woman, through which the head of the human infant passes at birth, forms a ring, determining for ever the size at birth of the human head†so exactly the intellectual capacity, the physical vigour, the emotional depth of woman, forms also an untranscendable circle, circumscribing with each successive generation the limits of expansion of the human race. 720

    -Iron
    Women and Labour, ch.3.

  • 'Humour,' he said,'is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity.' SeeWordsworth 925:10.

    -James Grover Thurber
      In the NewYork Post, 29 Feb.

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