Nanette Quotes

“Laughter is not our medicine. Stories hold our cure.”
― Hannah Gadsby

“Self-hatred is only ever a seed planted from outside but when you do that to a child, it becomes a weed so thick and it grows so fast, that child doesn't know anything different. It becomes as natural as gravity.”
― Hannah Gadsby

“When you soak a child in shame they cannot develop the neurological pathways that carry thought ... thoughts of self-worth.”
― Hannah Gadsby

“And I needed my audience to trust me because I needed my audience to feel safe, and I needed my audience to feel safe so that I could take that safety away and not give it back. Why? Because that is the shape of trauma.”
― Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette