Deserved Quote by Jessica Sorensen

There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.

— Beth Ditto

“She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“She thought about how it was to have been a woman in the prime of life, with children and a man, and then to…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Wherever the responsibility lies, shame creates a solid and terrible feeling of unworthiness that resides in our bodies: the storehouse of the memories of…

— Sharon Salzberg

Today I will learn to reject shame. Shame is an overwhelming sense that who I am isn't good enough. I realize that I am…

— Melody Beattie

Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.

— Carl Sandburg

No, not shame on you. Shame on her. She can't see what's right in front of her giving her his all.

— DaniAlla

“word on shame: If there is any one thing that can hold us back, it is our own self-loathing. If we move through our…

— Jeff Brown

“...it was ludicrous to think that we could just talk our way out of shame, that shame was necessary, that it prevented us from…

— Miriam Toews

“I have learned that for me, shame is like kryptonite. It was utterly destructive, a boot on my neck for most of my life.…

— Laura Parrott Perry

I can still see her face -- The sorrow in her eyes, her voice, as she condemns me. I didn't know it was possible…

— Chris Claremont

In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of shame... She felt, now, she…

— Anonymous