Thou Shalt Not Be Aware Quotes

“I have never known a patient to portray his parents more negatively than he actually experienced them in childhood but always more positively--because idealization of his parents was essential for his survival.”
― Alice Miller, Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child

“The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.”
― Alice Miller, Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child

“Children who are respected learn respect. Children who are cared for learn to care for those weaker than themselves. Children who are loved for what they are cannot learn intolerance. In an environment such as this they will develop their own ideals, which can be nothing other than humane, since they grow out of the experience of love.”
― Alice Miller, Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child

“At the very first you were quite obviously and incomprehensibly indifferent toward me and probably for this reason seemed familiar.”
― Alice Miller, Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child