grip quotes

Le colonialisme ne se satisfait pas d'enserrer le peuple dans ses mailles, de vider le cerveau colonise   de toute forme et de tout contenu. Par une sorte de perversion de la logique, il s'oriente vers le passe   du peuple opprime  , le distort, le de  figure, l'ane  antit. Colonialismisnot satisfiedmerely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native's brain of all form and content. Bya kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of the oppressed people, and distorts, disfigures and destroys it.

- Frantz Omar Fanon
Les Damne  s de la terre ( The Wretched of the Earth, translated by Constance Farrington,1965), ch.4,'On National Culture'.

If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.

- Nancy Friday
  My Mother, My Self, ch.1.

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

- BarbaraW(ertheim) Tuchman
  The Guns of August, ch.2.

One by one the objects are defined It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf But now the stark dignity of entranceStill, the profound change has come upon them: rooted, they grip down and begin to awaken.

-William Carlos Williams
  Spring and All,'Spring and All'.