Stacey Hettes

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

“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
― Christopher Hitchens

“It is harder to talk about and comprehend what sexual abuse does to how we see ourselves than to re-tell and relive the actual events.”
― Stacey Hettes, Dispatches from the Couch: A Neuroscientist and Her Therapist Conspire to Reboot Her Brain

“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