Paralysis Quote by Bell Hooks

Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.

— Bell Hooks

“trauma produces actual physiological changes, including a recalibration of the brain’s alarm system, an increase in stress hormone activity, and alterations in the system…

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

“Changes in Relationship with others: It is especially hard to trust other people if you have been repeatedly abused, abandoned or betrayed as a…

— Suzette Boon

I'm very lucky in that I still experience highs and lows. And I think those lows are important. But I am not totally paralyzed,…

— Sarah Silverman

“Before I knew it, I was racing across the highway. For the first time in my life, I didn’t know what to think.”

— Sarah Todd Hammer

Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension…

— Thomas A. Edison

“(There are many ways to be crippled, I’ve learned over the years, many forms of paralysis.)”

— Christina Baker Kline

There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

“Fear is the paralyzing emotion that inhibits or restricts normal feelings of love, confidence, and well-being.”

— Tim LaHaye

Idleness is paralysis.

— Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

Let me explain: there are dragons, and then there are drakons. Drakons are several millennia older than dragons, andmuch larger. They look like giant…

— Rick Riordan

In '81, my father had an attack of paralysis.

— Raza Murad