Child-abuse-survivor Quote by Joan Frances Casey

“I could see (though not as clearly as I do now) that one of my biggest problems was me. Because I wanted everyone to…

— John Cleese

“People expected certain things of me: assistance, silence, comfort. They had no idea who I was.”

— Alice Hoffman

“It was nice of her to want to believe the best about me. People tend to do that with the strangers they're fucking. If…

— Paul Neilan

“I didn't like people knowing things about me. I wasn't embarrassed by my past, because it couldn't be helped, but people were cruel and…

— Lynda LeeAnne

“I knew Lynn was a "professional." Like all of the therapists I had seen before her, she was talking to me because she was…

— Joan Frances Casey

“She was my friend and I loved her and relied on her, even though there were days when her moodiness and fragility frightened me,…

— Julie Metz

“I felt sorry for myself. I knew I wasn’t a bad person, but it did not stop me from carrying on and being argumentative.…

— Jenifer Lewis

“You couldn't teach kindness, she thought. It was something you were born with. People either had it or they didn't.”

— Elizabeth Brundage

“...She looked at the people around her and felt not just that she was surrounded by strangers, but that she herself was strange, somehow,…

— Daphne Kalotay

“But never, ever mistake kindness for weakness.”

— Louise Penny

“This helping-people business was an attractive idea, I'll admit, because up to now I'd not done much more than be, and when I wasn't…

— Brock Clarke

“I’d figured out that it wasn’t just about food and shelter. Obviously, that was important, but it was the people that I met, the…

— Melody J. Bremen