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“Our brain processes incoming sensory input from the bottom up, and if someone has a life with chaotic, uncontrollable, or extreme and prolonged stress, particularly early in life, they're more likely to act before thinking. Their cortex is not as active, and reactivity in the lower areas of the brain becomes more dominant.”
― Oprah Winfrey, What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

“If, the first two months of life, a child experienced high adversity with minimal relational buffering but was then put into a healthier environment for the next twelve years, their outcomes were worse than the outcomes of children who had low adversity and healthy relational connection in the first two months but then spent the next twelve years with high adversity”
― Oprah Winfrey, What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

“A child in an environment where they feel loved and safe will choose to leave their comfort zone. Safe and familiar is "boring"; a safe and stable child is a curious child - they want to explore new things. A child who feel unsafe, however, won't want this. It's an essential rule of healthy development: A sense of safety and stability provides a foundation for healthy growth.”
― Oprah Winfrey, What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

“Họ bắt tôi không được yêu con gái nữa. Nhưng tôi làm gì sai? Tôi chả ăn cắp, ăn trộm, giết người gì cả. Khôi hài! Có người yêu con trai, có người yêu con gái, tất cả đều là người, đều là tạo vật của thế giới này.”
― Đặng Hoàng Giang, Tìm mình trong thế giới hậu tuổi thơ