I think trauma gets a reductive treatment. We tend to think only violence or molestation or total abandonment qualify as "childhood trauma,"… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“Mother, if you love her- Mother, if you love her, keep her clean. Mother, if you lover her, keep her-” — Ami Mckay Copy Share Image
I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love.… — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse Copy Share Image
“When my relationship failed due to her secret affairs, I struggled with how my abandonment of the child would affect their future… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us.… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
My director, Jesus, does not teach me to count my acts, but to do everything for love, to refuse Him nothing, to… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Christian discipleship does not involve the abandonment of any innocent enjoyment. Any diversion or amusement which we can use so as to… — Washington Gladden Copy Share Image
I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment required of… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Usually this desire [for family limitation] has been laid to economic pressure It has asserted itself among the rich and among the… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Either way, one should love their children, shouldn’t they? After all, children are only duplicates of your own genes. What did these… — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
“When loneliness is a constant state of being, it harkens back to a childhood wherein neglect and abandonment were the landscape of… — Alexandra Katehakis Copy Share Image
“Things becomes invisible at the very moment I refuse to grant them importance. And while I am utterly ashamed to admit it,… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I want to live with that sense with the music I make, with the art I make, with the way I love… — Steven Curtis Chapman Copy Share Image
Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I… — Kenny Loggins Copy Share Image
“Less than twenty-four hours ago, I had a family and a home and a dreamworld I thought was as close to heaven… — Erica Cameron Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic… — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
Our brain comes hard-wired with an urge to play, one that hurls us into sociability. A child's play both demands and creates… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image