« Two mothers and two babies are not alike. »

« As a child grows, there must be increasingly clear barriers to the requirements that the child has the right to impose on his or her mother. Who will set that limit? `...` It is up to the father to intervene to defend his wife. He has rights, too. He wants his wife to find an independent existence. He also wants to have it a little bit for himself, even if, at the end of the day, it requires excluding children. At the end of the day, it's the father who puts the brakes on. `...` It is by intervening in this way that he becomes more important in the eyes of his child. »

« The mother, who has just come out of a grunting experience, has an extremely difficult task. It must be aware of a kind of power against which neither the swollen breast nor the resting breast is exactly appropriate. She is greatly helped by the genital power of her man. »