Quotes for All
If menopause is the silent passage, ‘male menopause’ is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is much more fundamental than the ending of the fertile period of a woman’s life, because it strikes at the core of what it is to be a man. Gail Sheehy
Shamefully, Mexico isn’t a country that provides opportunities equally and democratically to everyone. Although there is a myth as well about that, because if you have something to tell, you will find a way to do it. You might get frustrated doing it but hey, that’s the country we live in. I want the chance … Read more
You let go of the past, and stop bringing the past into the present and replaying it into the future. You release guilt, shame, and you can create an entirely new pattern for yourself. Gabrielle Bernstein
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. Gabourey Sidibe
Shame has poor memory. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I think there’s over-telling sometimes, in fiction. For instance, I’m a big fan of horror movies, but I could always lose the last third of them. There’s the brilliant exciting scary thing that’s going on, and then they have to show you the monster, and the monster turns out to be a giant spider from … Read more
Great Spirit, When we face the sunset when we come singing the last song, may it be without shame, singing ‘it is finished in beauty, it is finished in beauty!’ Evelyn Eaton
People didn’t feel so much shame around it and that they didn’t feel so much humiliation around it. And the other thing that people have given me a lot of feedback about – something I’m very excited about – is all the stuff around chemo as an empathetic warrior. Eve Ensler
Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings – homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame or embarrassment about that attraction on the other. It is well known that the mind struggles to sustain conflicting views. Evan Davis
You will not achieve happiness if you don’t work hard; and it’s a shame not to want to work hard. Euripides