Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated.

Trading old broken mirrors that feed lies into our souls for new mirrors of freedom requires choices.

Having needs is not evidence of weakness – it is human.

Yeah, it didn't work like that because lies cannot protect

I have gotten where I am today by refusing to stay where I was. Change is something I have done over and over again.

Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive.

Perception is reality to the one in the experience.

Trauma is personal.

I’d go to hell and back and cut off the devil’s head myself to save you.

She feels "Brutal Dynasty" actually may become the Great American Novel she and her fellow critics have been looking for so long.

You know how we can be about things which sparkle and shine. We imagine they will put back something of what has been lost.

"Drink with me, my dear," said Mr. Weller. "Put your lips to this here tumbler, and then I can kiss you by deputy."

I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.

All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.

Fear of failure is always a driver but the thirst for more is a good one too... So I think you need a little bit of both.

To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more?