Anxiety Quote by Jessica Stern

“How much of what we think of as an admirable response to trauma - the "stiff upper lip" - is actually dissociation, the mind's…

— Jessica Stern

“Here is what I think now, reading what I wrote down for the police at age fifteen, right after I was raped. I was…

— Jessica Stern

“I often feel like nobody," Skip says. "I ask myself: Why would you want to talk to me? Why would anyone want to talk…

— Jessica Stern

“When I asked my father whether he thought that it was possible that his mother was raped behind that closed door, he said, "She…

— Jessica Stern

“My breathe would catch at the sight of violets-so common in the woods at home, so surprising in the mountains. The violet's message was…

— Jessica Stern

“What is courage?" I ask. "Bearing witness. That is a form of courage.”

— Jessica Stern

I have listened and I have been quiet all my life. But now I will speak.

— Jessica Stern

Never give up hope, spring will come.

— Jessica Stern

“Why does the threat of violent death alter some of us, even if subtly, forever? Why does it make us unusually numb or calm…

— Jessica Stern

I will roar argon into chlorine, xenon into fluorine, all the noble gases into reactive ones My lament will terrify even the stars.

— Jessica Stern

“After a series of traumas, one can lose the capacity to feel fear appropriately.”

— Jessica Stern

Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You…

— Jessica Stern