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“Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.”

Stories Sides Shame Illness Opening Thread Trivia

Book:What Her Body Thought: A Journey Into the Shadows

Source: What Her Body Thought: A Journey Into the Shadows

“Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature.”

Way Feels Humans Achieve Treats Shame Refuse Rejects No Hope Stigma Stature

Author:Germaine Greer

“Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.”

Two Sides Crime Shame Guilt Committed Nasty Grim Stigma Coalitions Triangles

Author:Germaine Greer

“I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.”

Home School Hate Shame

Book:Nigger

Source: Nigger

“A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.”

Hate Fate Shame Add Dread Scorn

Book:The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia and Lucilius

Source: The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia and Lucilius

“Failure is no shame - but not making the attempt is despicable.”

Effort Shame Despicable

Author:Paula Gosling

“In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of self and the natural world, and her skillful use of that language. Whether she turns her attention to the act of eating an apricot 'the color of shame and dawn,' or to 'the omnipotence of light,' or to grief when 'All the greens of summer have blown apart,' her linking of unique images, her energetic wit and whimsy, her compassionate investment in life, always bring new pleasures and perceptions to the reader.”

“We often wonder that certain men and women are left by God to the commission of sins that shock us. We wonder how, under the temptation of a single hour, they fall from the very heights of virtue and of honor into sin and shame. The fact is that there are no such falls as these, or there are next to none. These men and women are those who have dallied with temptation--have exposed themselves to the influence of it, and have been weakened and corrupted by it.”

Men Has Beens Facts Certain Fall Next Left Hours Sin Wonder Virtue Influence Honor Men And Women Shame Temptation Height Shock Exposed

Author:J. G. Holland

“The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own taste without shame or fear. It is a sort of heroism.”

Development Morality Taste Shame Painter Celebrate Enjoyment Heroism Celebrate Life

Author:Patrick Swift

“Our life is so short that every time I see my children, I enjoy them as much as I can. Whenever I can, I enjoy my beloved, my family, my friends, my apprentices. But mainly I enjoy myself, because I am with myself all the time. Why should I spend my precious time with myself judging myself, rejecting myself, creating guilt and shame? Why should I push myself to be angry or jealous? If I don't feel good emotionally, I find out what is causing it and I fix it. Then I can recover my happiness and keep going with my story.”

“There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame of his own soul--to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to God.”

Should Soul Peace Interest Sacrifice Integrity Shame Violation Allegiance

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“And when April like an over-lustful lover leaped upon the lush flanks of the Downs there would be yet another child in the wretched hut down on Nettle Flitch Field, where Meriam housed the fruits of her shame.”

Children Would Be Fields Lovers Shame Fruit Wretched April Huts Lush Lustful Nettles

Book:Cold comfort farm

Source: Cold comfort farm

“Kerry Cohen's powerful, transfixing story will be familiar to many women, most of whom won't want to admit it. In this heartfelt and authentic memoir, Cohen transcends the pain and shame of a promiscuous past, and leaves readers with a sense of hope and triumph.”

Want Stories Pain Past Powerful Reader Shame Memoir Familiar Triumph Heartfelt Promiscuous

Author:Janice Erlbaum

“So you were born, and that was a good day. Some day you'll die, and that is a shame. But somewhere in the between, you'll live a life of which we'll all dream, and nothing and no one will ever take that away.”

Dream Dies Born Shame Good Day

Author:Tomas Kalnoky

“There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.”

Lying Actors Shame Stealing

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“Childhood is what ended me up in the hospital and teetering on the edge of deathly alcoholism. It was really good for me to accept it. To accept all the embarrassment and the shame so I don't feel like I used to.”

Feels Used Accepting Childhood Shame Edges Hospitals Alcoholism Embarrassment

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, "Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity, I'm willing to make some sacrifices." And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.”

People Thinking Problem Walks Sacrifice Economic Willing Ought Dignity Police Shame Police Brutality Brutality Disparity

Author:Al Sharpton

“Why do we hold onto negativity? For some reason, we believe that others are affected by our experience of remaining upset, hurt or angry. Holding on to pain, anger, guilt or shame is the glue that binds us to the situation we want to escape.”

Want Believe Reason Pain Hurt Situation Experience Anger Shame Angry Guilt Upset Affected Negativity Holding On Glue

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“I live my life because I dare. I dare to show up when everyone else might hide their faces and hide their bodies in shame.”

Shows Body Might Faces Shame Dare Living My Life I Live My Life

Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“The shame is not in having sported, but in not having broken off the sport. [Lat., Nec luisse pudet, sed non incidere ludum.]”

Sports Broken Shame

Author:Horace

“Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.”

Men Made Spirit Found Chance Conscience Gold Shame Obstacles Bosoms Beggar Purses Blushing Mutiny

Book:First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III

Source: First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III

“For my part, I may speak it to my shame, I have a truant been to chivalry; And so I hear he doth account me too.”

May Speak Accounts Shame Cowardice Chivalry

Book:Henry IV

Source: Henry IV

“All the contagion of the south light on you, You shames of Rome! you herd of--boils and plagues Plaster you o'er; that you may be abhorr'd Further than seen, and one infect another Against the wind a mile!”

May Light Wind Shame South Miles Rome Plague Herds Contagion Plasters

Book:The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index

Source: The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index

“Losse embraceth shame.”

Book:The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

“For some reason, I was born without a sense of embarrassment or shame.”

Reason Born Shame Embarrassment

Author:Jason Segel

“I'm not one to hide anything, but I don't feel the need to comment directly on [my relationships]... I think it would be a shame to not live in the moment and not enjoy everything that's happening in fear of other people's opinions.”

People Thinking Needs Feels Moments Would Be Enjoy Opinion Happenings Shame Comment Live In The Moment

Author:Lily Collins

“The ideal body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.”

Feels Looks Made Body Products Ideals Shame Corporations Buying Advertisers

Author:Caitlin Stasey

“I think half of what a trainer does is make you feel shame if you dont show up.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Doe Shows Half Shame Trainers

Author:Stephen Moyer

“That's the weird thing about not being married - you can't get regular kissing; you can't be guaranteed of it, and that's a great shame.”

Kissing Married Shame Being Married Weird Things Kissing You

Author:Dawn French

“There is no shame in going out fighting and getting your ass kicked, but there is no honor in not fighting at all.”

Fighting Honor Shame Ass Going Out

Author:The Undertaker

“I remember kind of doing early acting and thinking, "God, they don't paint behind the sets." It's a bit of a shame, really - "Oh, what's on the other side of this wall? Oh, you can see the plywood." I was really disappointed. I just thought that these things were real, from watching things as a kid.”

Thinking Kind Real Kids Remember Bits Sides Acting Behinds Wall Shame Paint Disappointed Thinking God

Author:Andy Serkis

“It's a great shame that the world was organized with two sexes. It makes for a lot of trouble.”

World Two Sex Trouble Shame Organized

Author:Margaret Ayer Barnes

“Nothing is truly infamous, but what is wicked; and therefore shame can never disturb an innocent and virtuous mind.”

Mind Shame Innocent Wicked Virtuous Infamous

Author:Thomas Sherlock

“The contempt which men feel for the prostitute, and the fact that they have always regarded themselves as far superior to her, even when they made use of her, suggests an attempt to rationalize the situation; it might be explained as an unconscious transference to the woman of the shame they feel for themselves in these relations.”

Men Feels Made Facts Use Might Situation Relation Shame Superiors Unconscious Contempt Prostitution Rationalize Transference

Author:Alison Roberta Noble Neilans

“Did a sense of shame ever reside in our Republican toadies? You can't stop people who are never embarrassed by themselves. Will's readiness to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse can be cited as world class sycophancy.”

People World Turns Class History Republican Ears Shame Embarrassed Purses Silk Readiness World Class Toady

Author:Norman Mailer

“Natural Giving: Anything we do in life which is not out of that energy, we pay for and everybody else pays for. Anything we do to avoid punishment, everybody pays for. Everything we do for a reward, everybody pays for. Everything we do to make people like us, everybody pays for. Everything we do out of guilt, shame, duty, or obligation, everybody pays for.”

People Giving Energy Natural Pay Duty Communication Shame Guilt Rewards Punishment Obligation Nonviolent Communication

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals - and even heads of state - they all say: 'Nigeria is a big disappointment. It is the shame of the African continent.'”

States Bigs Shame Fellows Disappointment Continents Conferences Nigeria Head Of State African Continent

Author:Wole Soyinka

“But being overborne with numbers, and nobody daring to face about, stretching out his hands to heaven, [Romulus] prayed to Jupiter to stop the army, and not to neglect but maintain the Roman cause, now in extreme danger. The prayer was no sooner made, than shame and respect for their king checked many; the fears of the fugitives changed suddenly into confidence.”

Made Hands Faces Heaven Causes Prayer Numbers Danger Changed Kings Army Shame Extremes Neglect Daring Stretching Jupiter Romulus

Book:Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography

Source: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography

“Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other.”

Helping Gratitude Asking Shame Over You Helping Each Other Condescension Asking For Help

Author:Amanda Palmer

“There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.”

Art Huge Shame Clouds Bedfellows

Author:Amanda Palmer

“I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.”

Art Real Wanted Parent Shame Metaphor Literal

Author:Amanda Palmer

“I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history-but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog.”

Ifs Humans Would Be Names Nations Felt Animal Dog Civilization Treats Shame Prosperity Extremes Income Cruelty Illegal Human History Percentages Unprecedented Affordability

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“There is no shame being beaten by such a great player, Sachin is perhaps only next to the Don”

Next Player Shame Beaten

Author:Steve Waugh

“Healthy shame is an emotion that teaches us about our limits. Like all emotions, shame moves us to get our basic needs met.”

Needs Moving Emotion Teach Healthy Mets Limits Shame Basic Needs

Book:Healing the Shame that Binds You

Source: Healing the Shame that Binds You

“Anyone who is suffering from shame and public humiliation needs to know one thing: You can survive it... You can insist on a different ending to your story. Have compassion for yourself. We all deserve compassion, and to live both online and off in a more compassionate world.”

Knows World Needs Different Stories Suffering Compassion One Thing Deserve Shame Online Compassionate Humiliation And Off Compassion For Yourself

Author:Monica Lewinsky

“The more shame, the more clicks. The more clicks, the more advertising dollars.”

Shame Dollars Advertising Clicks

Author:Monica Lewinsky

“Public humiliation is a commodity and shame is an industry.”

Industry Shame Commodity Humiliation

Author:Monica Lewinsky

“People who live under fascism are not only miserable but they're full of shame. You just don't go in and inject democracy into them. They're half crazy with their own.”

People Half Democracy Crazy Shame Miserable Fascism

Author:Norman Mailer

“A lot of times the best trailers are for complete dogshit movies. It's a shame that people are beyond quick to judge things these days. Lots of great stuff gets lost that way.”

People Way Lost Stuff Judging Shame These Days Trailers Quick To Judge

Author:Rob Zombie

“I always have looked at "indie" as a term of "independence." Never associated a sonic gesture with that in the same way that pop music has always meant "popular" to me it didn't define a sound. And I think now that has been the context for things. If something is indie, it almost has this sonic association with it, or pop has become this term of shame almost, like, bubblegum sweet pop.”

Ifs Thinking Way Has Beens Sound Term Sweet Shame Independence Pops Association Gestures Pop Music

Author:Solange Knowles