Tyrannies Of Silence Quotes & Sayings

Is this what it's like, I thought then, and think now: a little blood here, a chomp there, and still we live, trampling the grass? Must everything whole be nibbled? Here was a new light on the intricate texture of things in the world, the actual plot of the present moment in time after the fall: the ways we living are nibbled and nibbling- not held aloft on a cloud in the air but bumbling pitted and scarred and broken through a frayed and beautiful land. — Annie Dillard

The black snake of wounded vanity had been gnawing at his heart all night. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence. — Audre Lorde

I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense. — Martha Beck

Tell me I'm not crazy, He said. I couldn't do that. I was nowhere near sane enough at the moment to advise anyone else on rational behavior. — Cora Carmack

I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself. — Peter Smithers