Marion Woodman: From infancy, children have been programmed to perform.
Standing alone today demands even more courage and strength than it did in former cultures.
Rather than living from their own needs and feelings, they learn to assess situations in order to please others.
Without an inner core of certainty grounded in their own musculature, they lack the inner resources to stand alone.
Pummelled by mass media and peer group pressures, their identity may be utterly absorbed by collective stereotypes.
In the absence of adequate rites of passage, ad-men become the high priests of an initiation into the addictions of consumerism. ― Marion Woodman, The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation, Page 16
