Stacey Hettes

“The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come- not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. If there is mild relief, one knows that it is only temporary; more pain will follow. It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul. So the decision-making of daily life involves not, as in normal affairs, shifting from one annoying situation to another less annoying- or from discomfort to relative comfort, or from boredom to activity- but moving from pain to pain. One does not abandon, even briefly, one’s bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.”
― William Styron, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

“Witches is just a word people came up with as an excuse to kill strong women,”
― Tessa Fontaine, The Red Grove

“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ”
― Roseanne Barr

“Patients who do not prove themselves during the initial intake hold no shot at becoming their therapist’s star pupil.”
― Stacey Hettes, Dispatches from the Couch: A Neuroscientist and Her Therapist Conspire to Reboot Her Brain