In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring… — Kate Reardon Copy Share Image
Many survivors refuse to talk about what they went through but I've never been ashamed to have been in one of those… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
The pressure is really what makes you work. The fear and the embarrassment. — Esther Povitsky Copy Share Image
The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Each of us is allowed to revel in our own desires, no matter how dark or depraved they may seem; for we… — K. Kiker Copy Share Image
If you have no shame, and it’s your goal to get people into bed, how much higher could your success rate possibly… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I get called "ISIS" now. Why don't we have a name-and-shame weapons dealership website? Instead, we're like, "Oh my God, are you… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how… — Eileen Atkins Copy Share Image
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
When I was asked: "Will shame do it?" Meaning: Will welfare people be shamed into getting respectable work? And I said that… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
“Superachievement and perfectionism are two of the leading cover-ups for toxic shame. As paradoxical as it may seem, the straight-A student and… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“The moment you have to recruit people to put another person down, in order to convince someone of your value is the… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
what pudor pejorocracy affronts how awe, night-rest and neighborhood can rot what breeds where dirtiness is law what crawls below — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame,… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
I count him lost, who is lost to shame. [Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.] — Plautus Copy Share Image
It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
It is rather the nature of America - our freewheeling, outspoken, prosperous, liberty-loving citizens extend equality to women, homosexuals, minorities, and almost… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
It is an insult for me to have been alive through the times you are calling the so-called civil rights movement. I… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
