#function

Global warming is by its very nature a threat, but it is a deadly threat only because it fails to trigger the brain's alarm. It leaves us sleeping in a burning bed. ↗

— Dan Gilbert

#climate-messaging #cognitive-functioning #dan-gilbert #global-warming #change

The dysfunction was not the character of one person, it was the split of family by divorce, with the ripples felt for eternity by bloodline. ↗

— Amber Garibay

#divorce #dysfunction #family #family

Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#dysfunctional-families #dysfunctional-family #family #problems #family

The survivor movements were also challenging the notion of a dysfunctional family as the cause and culture of abuse, rather than being one of the many places where abuse nested. This notion, which in the 190s and early 198s was the dominant understanding of professionals characterised the sex abuser as a pathetic person who had been denied sex and warmth by his wife, who in turn denied warmth to her daughters. Out of this dysfunctional triad grew the far-too-cosy incest dyad. Simply diagnosed, relying on the signs: alcoholic father, cold distant mother, provocative daughter. Simply resolved, because everyone would want to stop, to return to the functioning family where mum and dad had sex and daughter concentrated on her exams. Professionals really believed for a while that sex offenders would want to stop what they were doing. They thought if abuse were decriminalised, abusers would seek help. The survivors knew different. P5 ↗

— Beatrix Campbell

#abusers #child-abuse #crime #criminal #dysfunctional-family

Government is operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it. ↗

— Gerry Spence

#because #bureau #bureaus #deeply #embedded

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#functions #i #imagination #much #people

No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#function #life #mouth #thing-to-ponder #truth

I've never attended any Tea Party functions. ↗

— John Bolton

#attended #functions #i #never #party

I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#anyone #different #else #function #how

Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' ↗

— Evan Bayh

#because #current #determined #enough #filibuster