« In reality, the couple's shoe does not suit everyone, but almost everyone tries to get their foot in it with more or less happiness. What do you want, we no longer have convents and monasteries to justify lives without partners! In the face of such a state of affairs, we might benefit from talking about the couple as a vocation, celibacy as a vocation, homosexuality and even "don-juanism" as vocations, that is, the calls of the soul that seeks through these forms of life its most just expression. This would prevent us from judging everything, from condemning everything... and explain everything. »

« ... it is good to remember the story of this grandmother who let her grandson ride his sled alone at the top of an icy slope. Despite her many falls, the child refused her help and eventually resigned herself to letting him do it. She was rewarded with her smile of triumph when he came to the top and said, proud of him: "I succeeded, Grandma! I did it!" She confided to me that if she had been her mother she would never have been able to let him do it; she would not have had sufficient detachment. But she would also have deprived herself of her smile of triumph. So it's often a matter of playing the grandmother before her time. »

« In our families, verbal, psychological, and even physical violence is not only the work of male spouses to partners and children, but also of distraught mothers who are trapped in silence. Deep down, the children are afraid of this witch, of this angry woman who is made of the shadows denied. The mother does not admit this rage because she does not want to be singled out as a villain. But by adopting this attitude of shadow denial, she worsens her situation because the aggressive impulse turns into violence in the unconscious. »