Shame Quote by Janet Benton Download Open image ““How is it that shame affixes itself to the violated, and not to the violator?”” — Janet Benton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Shame
“The basis of shame is not some mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Shame without repentance doesn’t lose power when it is spoken, it only seeks approval.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“When shame is your own, it’s hard enough to bear. When other people are witness to it, it becomes intolerable.” — Rachel Abbott Copy Share Image
“What an uncomfortable, terrible source of shame it is for the world that the victim is so often the one left with the most… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“There is no shame in being the object of a crime. You did not choose to be the object. (111)” — JM Coetzee Copy Share Image
“When I gardened at home, I often considered how the growth of plants resembles the gradual growth of the spirit. And seeing life make… — Janet Benton Copy Share Image
“Tears slid down my cheeks. Their source must move closer to the eyes in mothers.” — Janet Benton Copy Share Image
“So little is permissible for a woman—yet on her back every human climbs to adulthood.” — Janet Benton Copy Share Image
“We can pursue our true wants, Mill writes, only when doing so harms no one to whom we are obliged.” — Janet Benton Copy Share Image
“Bitterness is poison, yes, but I hold a flask of it to my lips and drink.” — Janet Benton Copy Share Image
“As if passion alone explained our predicaments. Our being female and unlucky—and, in my case, a near idiot in the ways of amorous men—must… — Janet Benton Copy Share Image
“Some force moves all living things to excel. Surely this proves we are endowed with bits of our Creator.” — Janet Benton Copy Share Image
“So she bowed her head and devoted herself to Beartown’s real traditional sports: shame and silence.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
It's a shame that when you've actually lived some life and have something to write about, they're saying you're too old to come out… — KT Tunstall Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Mine would be, "We will stand together, he and I. One in victory, one in shame. Only then can I truly own the power… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Build a bridge over shame by teaching kids about sexual abuse. Give them a chance to run to us should they encounter it. Be… — Carolyn Byers Ruch Copy Share Image
Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia. — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
I guarantee you [Hillary Clinton] is smoking in humiliation over the idea that she needs to heal and that [Donald] Trump's the guy to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“There's something energizing about getting what you want, even if that something is shame.” — Riley Sager Copy Share Image
Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
“He stopped at an intersection, panting, rubbing at the twinge in his hamstrings, looking around, though he knew no cars were coming in either… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
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