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“A primary rule of assertiveness is that anyone has the right to ask you for anything; and you have the equal right to say no, without giving a reason.”
― Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect
― Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect
“Do unto your child as you wish your parents had done unto you.”
― Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect
― Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect
“Emotionally neglected people tend to be good listeners. But they are not good at talking, especially about themselves.”
― Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect
― Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect
“Emotions that are not acknowledged or expressed tend to jumble together and emerge as anger. Eventually, suppressed feelings refuse to stay down. When they do, they erupt as small spurts of irritability that hurt others.”
― Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect
― Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect
“Another problem is the apathy of the media and a majority of India’s intellectual class who refuse to even acknowledge the suffering of the Pandits.”
― Our Moon Has Blood Clots: A Memoir of a Lost Home in Kashmir
― Our Moon Has Blood Clots: A Memoir of a Lost Home in Kashmir
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