Quotes by Alice Miller, Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries

Explore a curated collection of 6 quotes by Alice Miller, Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

Not to take one's own suffering seriously, to make light of it or even to laugh at it, is considered good manners in our — Alice Miller, Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries
A human being born into a cold, indifferent world will regard his situation as the only possible one. — Alice Miller, Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries
Cruelty is the opposite of love, and its traumatic effect, far from being reduced, is actually reinforced if it is prese — Alice Miller, Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries
The public forum is not, of course, the most helpful place to conduct a profitable confrontation with one's parents. If — Alice Miller, Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries
To forget and to repress would be a good solution if there were no more to it than that. But repressed pain blocks emoti — Alice Miller, Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries
Child abuse damages a person for life and that damage is in no way diminished by the ignorance of the perpetrator. It is — Alice Miller, Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries