Asks Quote by Amanda Palmer

While someone can attempt to shame you, shame must also be accepted to be effective. We can't make you feel shame without your participation.

— Seth

“When you run up against someone else’s shamelessness, ask yourself this: Is a world without shamelessness possible? No. Then don’t ask the impossible. There…

— Marcus Aurelius

There are so many people out there with less shame talking about their problems.

— Dan Savage

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Because connection with others and our "best self" is the most primal need we have, shame feels absolutely awful.

— Christiane Northrup

Shame occurs when you haven't been able to get away with the 'who' you want people to think you are.

— Carl Whitaker

It is not human to be without shame and without desire.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

We all have unresolved shame, because it is used as a tool to control behavior.

— Christiane Northrup

What shames us, what we most fear to tell, does not set us apart from others; it binds us together if only we can…

— Starhawk

I don't want people to have any shame, you know?

— Bridget Everett

Whenever we feel shame, it's a mark of some deep investment or deep internal struggle.

— Leslie Jamison

I think cultures of conformity produce vast quantities of shame, both in people who simply can't conform and people who do conform, but underneath,…

— Jonathan Franzen