CHILDREN
Many people suffer all their lives from [an] oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents’ expectations. This feeling is stronger than any intellectual insight that it is not a child’s task or duty to satisfy his parent’s narcissistic needs.
— Alice Miller
another eye opens 
March 24, 2010 at 11:15 am
One of my favorite quotes! Is it true that she originally wrote in German and it was translated in English? If so, she had a great translator.