{"quotes":[{"text":"With DID patients, if they feel hostility or aggression they take it out on themselves with self-harm... They’re self-destructive and repeatedly suicidal, more so than any other psychological disorder. So that's what's typical – not this wild aggression, or stalking women [or robbery].- Dr Bethany Brand, on Billy Milligan and Multiple Personality Disorder (DID).","author":"Bethany L. Brand","tags":["billy-milligan","dissociative-identity-disorder","insanity","mental-disorder","mental-illness","misconception","misrepresentation","multiple-personalities","multiple-personality-disorder","self-harm","self-injury","split-personality","stereotypes","stigma","suicidal","suicidality","suicide","the-crowded-room"],"id":28670,"author_id":"Bethany+L.+Brand"},{"text":"I have often misunderstood men grossly, and I have misrepresented them when I understood them, sacrificing sense to make a phrase. Here, of course, is where even the most conscientious critic often goes aground; he is apt to be an artist before he is a scientist, and the impulse to create something passionately is stronger in him than the impulse to state something accurately.","author":"H.L. Mencken","tags":["criticism","misrepresentation","misunderstanding"],"id":87085,"author_id":"H.L.+Mencken"},{"text":"How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["attention","being-yourself","celebrities","emotional","facade","fame","fortune","human","inability","introvert","libel","loneliness","lonely","misconception","misrepresentation","misrepresented","misunderstood","naive","physical","popularity","psychological","remedy","slander","solitude"],"id":268901,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that their suitors have to resort to such trickery to have their way with them? And why don't women quickly succumb to them, without the need for all this skill and ingenuity in conquering them? For there is no need to go to war for a castle that is already captured.","author":"Christine de Pizan","tags":["books","clichés","deceit","defenselessness","double-standards","fickleness","gender","hypocrisy","inequality","injustice","men","misogyny","misrepresentation","morality","one-sidedness","perception","prejudice","received-opinion","seduction","slander","social-norms","stereotypes","suppression","unfairness","women"],"id":271294,"author_id":"Christine+de+Pizan"},{"text":"The household was pervaded by this atmosphere of a calm adult woman and a man who gave into animal impulses. She reported to him in great detail what her analyst ... Said about his binges and his hostility; she used Charley's money to pay Dr. Andrews to catalog his abnormalities. And of course Charley never heard anything directly from the doctor; he had no way of keeping her from reporting what served her and holding back what did not. The doctor, too, had no way of getting to the truth of what she told him; no doubt she only gave him the facts that suited her picture, so that the doctor's picture of Charley was based on what she wanted him to know. By the time she had edited both going and coming there was little of it outside her control.","author":"Philip K. Dick","tags":["liars","lifestyle","manipulation","misrepresentation"],"id":280472,"author_id":"Philip+K.+Dick"},{"text":"The next morning I had Twentieth-Century American Poetry at MCC. This old woman gave a lecture wherein she managed to talk for ninety minutes about Sylvia Plath without ever once quoting a single word of Sylvia Plath.","author":"John Green","tags":["humor","irony","misrepresentation","paraphrasing"],"id":303327,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite point of view and keep the best arguments for themselves, for aggressors are always quick to attack those who have no means of defence.","author":"Christine de Pizan","tags":["argument","deceit","defenselessness","double-standards","falsehood","hypocrisy","inequality","injustice","misrepresentation","one-sidedness","strength","unfairness","weakness"],"id":398401,"author_id":"Christine+de+Pizan"},{"text":"One of the Christian's biggest fears is appearing 'too Christian'. God forbid, because that's often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being 'one of them'.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["afraid","apologetics","awful","character","christian","christianity","church","conservative","criticism","fear","forbid","funny","funny-but-true","god","humor","hypocrisy","judgment","liberal","misrepresentation","modernity","prude","religion","representation","scrutiny","self-righteousness","spirituality","worldly"],"id":439978,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":8,"pages":1}}