The Sullivanians Quotes

“The adjectives Pearce and Newton chose to describe the everyday life of mother and child are “phobic,” “psychotic,” and “miserable”; common nouns in the text are “anger,” “jealousy,” and “blackmail”; their favorite verbs are “handicap,” “paralyze,” “destroy,” and “atrophy.”
― Alexander Stille, The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune

“This group was composed almost entirely of high-performing urban professionals—doctors, lawyers, computer programmers, successful artists and writers, professors—who went to normal jobs by day but returned in the evening to a very different and highly secretive world built around fellowship, polygamous sex, radical politics, and political theater.”
― Alexander Stille, The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune

“Along with believing that traditional families were bad for children, they also believed that a child’s biological inheritance was unimportant and that environment was everything.”
― Alexander Stille, The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune