Desire Quote by Khoi Vinh

Even more than getting married or having kids, I found losing a parent is what thrusts you into adulthood. For me it was. That…

— Paul Rudd

Psychologically, it's difficult to ever shrug off the effects of extreme hardship or poverty, family bereavement, chronic ill health or the memory of violent…

— Dawn Foster

I grew up feeling like the main obstacles that we were trying to overcome had more to do with how we survive together as…

— Lee Isaac Chung

I did have imprinted on me the idea of trauma that changes things dramatically and suddenly. As a writer, I return to that again…

— Ann Packer

There are those uncomfortable things that've passed that you have to deal with or they define you, like childhood trauma. Like when I'm lost,…

— Mike Ness

When my own son is going through what he goes through, coming back, I can certainly relate with other families, who kind of fill…

— Sarah Palin

I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me.

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

Now that I'm a father of three kids, suddenly the whole world seems different. I don't want to take anything for granted. If you…

— Damian Loeb

I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I've had so many life expriences and those experiences create you little by little. You're never going to be the same person you were…

— Kat Dahlia

When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into…

— Christine Lagarde

I always remember my childhood as traumatic, for various reasons; I always felt alienated, outside.

— Kate Zambreno