““The hardcore drug addicts that I treat, are, without exception, people who have had extraordinarily difficult lives. The commonality is childhood abuse. These people all enter life under extremely adverse circumstances. Not only did they not get what they need for healthy development; they actually got negative circumstances of neglect. I don’t have a single female patient in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver who wasn’t sexually abused, for example, as were many of the men, or abused, neglected and abandoned serially, over and over again. That’s what sets up the brain biology of addiction. In other words, the addiction is related both psychologically, in terms of emotional pain relief, and neurobiological development to early adversity.”” Gabor Maté libro In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts Fuente: In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
“In the ancient world women were treated as second-class individuals. When they are equally or more intelligent than men and the lungs of life.” EmilyBs
“Everyone who comes out of the sewers ends up looking like rats. They know all the big and small roles and kill quietly too.” EmilyBs
“Progressive philosophy: women who say they are men, men who say they are women, others who say they are men and women at the same time, others who say they are neither men nor women, and others who say they are animals, "to eliminate the human race" and head straight for extinction.” EmilyBs