Eight Quote by David Plotz

I was exposed to violence while I was still in the womb - my father punched my mother in the stomach while she was…

— Jim Goad

But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's…

— Lynn Johnston

I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few…

— Maya Angelou

I was an emotional wreck even as a young child, fearful and tearful.

— Beth Moore

I was a very defensive kid 'cause I was really sensitive underneath and didn't want people to know. So I came off as very…

— Pink

I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that claimed the…

— Ishmael Beah

I was traumatized by a lot of childhood stuff. I felt that I was bad somewhere, starting with my birth.

— Joel Grey

My dad had a series of heart attacks when I was a little girl, and our world was shaped by these huge, traumatic events.

— Mary Steenburgen

My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.

— Marilyn Manson

But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example…

— Mercedes Ruehl

I have a daughter who, when younger, possessed no barrier between her emotional self and the outside world. Her emotional insides spilled out all…

— Heidi Julavits

I asked that my friends and family hold me accountable for living life unafraid. A traumatic loss meant that I was primed to see…

— Mary Katharine Ham