Danger Quote by Eve Ensler Download Open image “Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.” — Eve Ensler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Danger Feelings People Stories
“sometimes think of people’s personalities as the negative space around their insecurities. Afraid of intimacy? Cultivate aloofness. Feel invisible? Laugh loud and often. Drink too much? Play the gregarious basket case. Hate your body? Slash and burn others so you can climb up the pile. We construct elaborate palaces to hide our vulnerabilities, often growing into caricatures of what we… — Lindy West Copy Share
I think there's a phenomenon of people who want to be around something that seems "dangerous." It makes them feel more real. — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
“Further evidence for the pathogenic role of dissociation has come from a largescale clinical and community study of traumatized people conducted by a task… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together. — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Love, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild character disturbances. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The tension of a mysterious danger is even more unbearable than danger itself. People hate the vacuum of an unknown situation. They want security.… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
“This book is a memoir - not of specific life events, but of the processes of dissociation, and of re-enlivening emotions that are shameful… — Jessica Stern Copy Share Image
“Fear and anxiety affect decision making in the direction of more caution and risk aversion... Traumatized individuals pay more attention to cues of threat… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“Vulnerability is usually attacked, not with fists but with shaming. Many children learn quickly to cover up any signs of weakness, sensitivity, and fragility, as well as alarm, fear, eagerness, neediness, or even curiosity. Above all, they must never disclose that the teasing has hit its mark. Carl Jung explained that we tend to attack in others what we are… — Gabor Maté Copy Share
“As highly sensitive empaths, we are particularly prone to experiencing the Dark Night of the Soul. The less defined our sense of self is… — Aletheia Luna Copy Share Image
“The highly sensitive [introverted] tend to be philosophical or spiritual in their orientation, rather than materialistic or hedonistic. They dislike small talk. They often… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'The Good Body,' I turned 40 and suddenly had this stomach. It seemed like the end of the world. Because I… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they're waiting for someone to say, 'You're good, you're pretty, I give you permission'. — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Terence McKenna says, "The culture is not your friend." I am not sure we can change this culture. But I think we can rise… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
What neo-capitalism does so brilliantly is that it's always subdividing and dividing, so that people are never able to be joined in their numbers… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
The verb that's been enforced on girls is to please. Girls are trained to please...I want us all to change the verb. I want… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“De acordo com os congressistas, ouvir as experiências reais de mulheres vítimas de violência era diferente de ler as estatísticas de violência contra mulheres.… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure. — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Anorexia was my attempt to have control over my body and manipulate my body and starve my body and shape my body. It was… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I believe in irony. And if V-Day has taught me anything, it's that if you go out with artistic, outrageous irony and humor, people are drawn to it. — Eve Ensler Copy Share
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive - as if one could be in danger from feeling too much instead of too little. But my outsize emotions were well represented… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“Anything you fear is a shackle to ur soul. It is a phobia that tethers and blinds ur ability to see and comprehend your… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“The set of circumstances that justifies the use of deadly force is a situation of immediate danger of death or great bodily harm to… — Massad Ayoob Copy Share Image
These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history — Christopher Wood Copy Share
There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. ... No great party can… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
All the dangers in our world are like a blessed wake up call. They tell us to live life NOW... not tomorrow, not when… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely to be asked about cosmology or sub-nuclear physics or human biology or evolution than they are to be asked about irregular Greek verbs or the danger of the patripassionist heresy. If we monotheists are going to go around… — Sara Maitland Copy Share