It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.
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I know I have a very self-destructive tendency since my mother died, I have got to be honest.
It's been one of the most painful things I've ever been through in my whole life: trying to understand the degree to which behaviors that I thought were totally appropriate were destructive.
I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.
Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions.
However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.
I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.
What distresses me at times is that I meet a lot of people in their 40's, 50's, 60's, who still say they're a victim of child abuse.
I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.
In our society, as people pass out of young adulthood, they tend to relate to themselves more in terms of what they are no longer than what they are now, and that's psychologically low-grade devastating.
We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood.
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