Famous quotes containing the words child and/or abuse:
“Fairy tales are loved by the child not because the imagery he finds in them conforms to what goes on within him, but becausedespite all the angry, anxious thoughts in his mind to which the fairy tale gives body and specific contentthese stories always result in a happy outcome, which the child cannot imagine on his own.”
—Bruno Bettelheim (20th century)
“But Ive heard mankind abuse thee;
And perhaps its rather strange,
But I thought that I would choose thee
For encomium, as a change.”
—Charles Stuart Calverley (18311884)
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