Five years Quote by Martha Stout

I don't want to get into splitting hairs. Trauma is trauma. I'm not in a position to quantify or qualify people's trauma.

— Tarana Burke

“Understanding that trauma is personal is crucial. It's not the size of the incident that determines its effect on you. It's how you received/perceived…

— Danielle Bernock

“Violence is about the attacker, not the victim. If you weren’t there, your attacker would have chosen some other victim. You are all real,…

— Kaje Harper

Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger.

— Bell Hooks

“Victims of a devastating trauma may never be the same biologically. [emphasis added].” Trauma”

— Ann Frederick

“Trauma may be endured through a physiological or psychological threat to life or overall wellbeing.”

— Asa Don Brown

If you hit somebody hard enough, they will give up. You can feel their body go limp and they'll just surrender. So every time…

— Bob Sanders

“I still can’t wrap my mind around crossing that line of human behavior – civilized people punching and fighting, making violence their communication of…

— Rachel Thompson

“You must know what it is like to have your life wrenched and broken, to realize that you will never really be the same.…

— Dr. Karin Huffer M.F.T

Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live.

— James Frey

“Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone...”

— Asa Don Brown

My idea of a good hit is when the victim wakes up on the sidelines with train whistles blowing in his head... I like…

— Jack Tatum