[A]fter puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious. . . . Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late.
Source: Letter, 25 Aug. 1930, to his brother; in Letters from Prison, by Gramsci; tr. by Raymond Rosenthal, 1993.
-- Antonio Gramsci, (Jan 23 1891-1937), Italian intellectual, politician; He was a founder of the Italian Communist Party whose ideas still greatly influence Italian Communism.