Reverberant Chamber Quotes & Sayings

Toxic shame, the shame that binds us, is experienced as the all-pervasive sense that "I am flawed and defective as a human being." Toxic shame is no longer an emotion that signals our limits; it is a state of being, a core identity. Toxic shame gives you a sense of worthlessness, a sense of failing and falling short as a human being. Toxic shame is a rupture of the self with the self. It is like internal bleeding - exposure to oneself lies at the heart of toxic shame. A shame-based person will guard against exposing his inner self to others, but more significantly, he will guard against exposing himself to himself. Toxic shame is so excruciating because it is the painful exposure of the perceived failure of self to the self. In toxic shame the self becomes an object of its own contempt, an object that can't be trusted. As an object that can't be trusted, one experiences oneself as untrustworthy. — John Bradshaw

Thank you very much for contacting me to express your support for the actions of President Bush in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. From the outset of the invasion, I have strongly and unequivocally supported President Bush's response to the crisis and the policy goals he has established with our military deployment in the Persian Gulf. — John F. Kerry

I think one of the great innovations of sexual harassment law was that it did not use the word "consent." It used the word "welcome." — Gloria Steinem

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head. — Charles Spurgeon

I may be a senior, but so what? I'm still hot. — Betty White

Gentelmen heve ever been more temperate in their religion than common people, as having more reason. — John Selden

You take insult where none is intended, but if you will find insult where none is meant, then perhaps I should try harder to insult on purpose. — Laurell K. Hamilton

I suppose this is what life will be like for me - never having a boyfriend, always just living through others — Louise Rennison

A lot of my writer friends live near me, and that makes people think we just hang around with one another in cafes, trading work and discussing 'Harper's' and what not. But I rarely see them. We're home working. — Colson Whitehead

None but ourselves will put the concrete on our road to success. — T.A