Complicity Quote by Chris Kraus

“Shame is a virus that creates paralysis in its hosts. When you're busy telling yourself what a bad person you are, you expend most…

— Rachel Simmons

“When we hear stories about shame that don’t fit with our experiences, our first reaction is often to distance ourselves from the experiences—“My mother…

— Brené Brown

“Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.”

— Alison Bechdel

When I was a boy if a girl got pregnant the shame was placed on her and the boy could get away.

— Bill Cosby

“This means that shame monitors excitement and pleasure. Nature has made the sexual experience the most exciting and pleasurable of all our experiences. Nature…

— John Bradshaw

“Women most often experience shame as a web of layered, conflicting, and competing social-community expectations. The expectations dictate who we should be, what we…

— Brené Brown

We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“As I look back on what I’ve learned about shame, gender, and worthiness, the greatest lesson is this: If we’re going to find our…

— Brené Brown

“Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us pleasure, self-esteem,…

— Sharon Salzberg

we are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and has been…

— Maude Royden

“the culture of shame is driven by fear, blame and disconnection and it's often a powerful incubator for issues like perfectionism ,stereotyping, gossip and…

— Brené Brown

“One of the most powerful ways that our shame triggers get reinforced is when we enter into a social contract based on these gender…

— Brené Brown