#repress

No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#another #breath #child #complacent #days

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about. ↗

— Ang Lee

#i #lot #make #movies #repression

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#allowed #class #decide #every #few

It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought. ↗

— Alice Miller

#been #childhood #confusion #disputed #most

We repress the things we're scared of, but if we just look at and embrace the things we're scared of, it's a much fuller, richer life that's also not as scary. ↗

— Gary Ross

#embrace #fuller #just #life #look

I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#good #i #person #repressed #school

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#government #i #nicaragua #often #policies

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#design #heavily #i #i think #know

When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression. ↗

— Marjane Satrapi

#fear #oppression #repression #oppression

When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score. ↗

— Enoch Powell

#i #keeps #repress #score #stomach