Amanda Brown > Quotes

“People self-harm for many reasons, but mostly it’s to displace the pain they feel in their minds.”
― Amanda Brown, The Prison Doctor

“I have been overtly aware of the importance of the words we use and the startling difference kindness can make to anyone, especially when people are at their most vulnerable.”
― Amanda Brown, The Prison Doctor: Women Inside: Stories from my time inside Britain’s biggest women’s prison.

“When you are backed into a corner and someone champions and believes in you, it can change your life.”
― Amanda Brown, The Prison Doctor: Women Inside: Stories from my time inside Britain’s biggest women’s prison.

“Yes, that’s why I’m here. I tried to cut his penis off with a barbed wire,’ she told me matter-of-factly, with a wry expression, the corners of her mouth turned up slightly. ‘I didn’t manage to finish the job. Sadly.”
― Amanda Brown, The Prison Doctor: Women Inside: Stories from my time inside Britain’s biggest women’s prison.

“A short prison sentence may as well be a life sentence”
― Amanda Brown, The Prison Doctor: Women Inside: Stories from my time inside Britain’s biggest women’s prison.

“I told the nurse I’d stuck my asthma pump up my arse, but I haven’t. I made it up ’cos I was bored.”
― Amanda Brown, The Prison Doctor: Women Inside: Stories from my time inside Britain’s biggest women’s prison.

“I used to judge people. Now I don’t. You never know what someone else is living through.”
― Amanda Brown, The Prison Doctor: Women Inside: Stories from my time inside Britain’s biggest women’s prison.

“The longer people wait to get help, the worse it gets. But they can start all over again.”
― Amanda Brown, The Prison Doctor: Women Inside: Stories from my time inside Britain’s biggest women’s prison.

“but sometimes a person’s presence, their importance, can be defined by the space where they no longer are.”
― Amanda Brown, The Prison Doctor: True stories from inside a foreign national prison from the Sunday Times best-selling author

“core”
― Amanda Brown, The Prison Doctor

“In my year, twenty-five per cent of us were female; this was twenty-five per cent too many for the Prof. He was one of life’s bullies.”
― Amanda Brown, The Prison Doctor: Women Inside: Stories from my time inside Britain’s biggest women’s prison.

“if someone starts shouting and tries to pick a fight, if you don’t react at all and just say nothing, they usually calm down because they realise that there’s no point shouting at someone who doesn’t shout back.”
― Amanda Brown, The Prison Doctor: True stories from inside a foreign national prison from the Sunday Times best-selling author

“but I had become so distrustful of men that most new relationships were doomed before they even had a chance to get started.”
― Amanda Brown, The Prison Doctor: True stories from inside a foreign national prison from the Sunday Times best-selling author