Tisa Lyon

“After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.”
― Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

“Women with clean houses do not have finished books.”
― Joy Held

“People with low self-confidence and self-esteem often feel nervous about antagonizing others and tend to rate others’ needs more highly than their own.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“What they did to me does not matter, what matters is I survived the circumstance.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, The Wings of Hope: Survivor