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Perhaps people felt there was nothing more they could do, you know? After all, how can someone be helped who doesn’t see the need? A Christian counselor I saw for a while described such situations as, “a White Elephant everyone can see but no one wants to deal with; everyone hopes the problem will just go away on its own.” Just like with my mom. Back then it seemed women were almost expected to go a little loopy sometimes. After all we’re the ones with raging hormones that get out of whack – by our periods, PMS or pregnancy and childbirth – and cause craziness and bizarre behavior. And because of those uncontrollable hormones, women are also more emotional and predisposed to depression. These are things my mom was actually told by her parents, her family, her husbands and friends... even her doctor. Eventually, she made herself believe that her erratic behavior stemmed from PMS, not mania or alcohol.


Chynna Laird


#alcoholism #bi-polar #pms #white-elephants #family

It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it is just one of those preposterous things that men do like putting a dam across a great river, one tenth of whose volume could engulf the whole of mankind without disturbing the domestic life of a single catfish.


Beryl Markham


#hunting #life

I am further back, surrounded on all sides by wailing men, their faces shiny with tears. Uncle Al promised three dollars and a bottle of Canadian whiskey to the man who puts on the best show. You've never seen such grief-- even the dogs were howling.


Sara Gruen


#gruen #water-for-elephants #men

One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife.


Robert T. Bakker


#animal #bad #biggest #danger #determined

And the political system is changing rapidly in this country, and we better realize that. The elephants or donkeys are not what younger people look to. They look at individual candidates' philosophy, and I think it's a different time and a different generation.


Richard M. Daley


#candidates #changing #country #different #donkeys

Psychoanalysts and elephants, they never forget.


Arthur Laurents


#forget #never #never forget #psychoanalysts

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.


Georg C. Lichtenberg


#elephants #find #judgment #many #obscure

Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.


Ferdowsi


#could #elephants #helmet #host #jewels

Age is terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back


Sara Gruen


#age

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.


Noel Coward


#elephant #elephants #fact #i #in fact