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Men Who Hate Women

by Laura Bates (Goodreads Author)

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Jan 07, 2024 07:39PM

“When I listened to her, I understood: You have to hold out to see how your life unfolds, because it is most likely beyond what you can imagine. It is not a question of if you will survive this, but what beautiful things await you when you do. I had to believe her, because she was living proof. Then she said, Good and bad things come from the universe holding hands. Wait for the good to come.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name

tags: hope, survivors, waiting-for-hope

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“When the sky falls, use it as a blanket,”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

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“It takes an intellectual and physical effort to shove aside the comfortably worn neural pathways and go in a different direction.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

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“Over and over, the answer is the same, isn’t it? Love, love, love. The salve and the cure. In order to become a better person, I had to do something utterly unintuitive. I had to reject the idea that punishing myself would solve the problem. I had to find the love.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

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“One day in the future, I will show my child her great-grandmother’s jade, the little gold rabbit with the ruby eyes. I will tell her that this will be hers. I will tell her all the stories about how our family survived, about the wars, and the gambling dens, and, yes, eventually even the golf club. I will tell her that when the sky falls, she should use it as a blanket. And then I will give her the shining thing, the thing that none of us got, the thing that only I, in all of my resilient power, can give. The thing that all this pain has given me. I will hold her tight and tell her that I love her more than anything in the world. That she can always come to me for anything at all, and I will fix it if it needs fixing or just listen if she needs to be listened to. And as long as I live, I will never leave.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

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