Annamarie

“Young children begin very early to internalize information that either encourages or discourages self-disclosure. Cues are intuitively understood. Most of what we feel is unexamined and articulated. Cultural norms are unwittingly absorbed. We learn when to speak and when to stay silent. - Pam MacRae (Ch. 2)”
― Rosalie De Rosset, Unseduced and Unshaken: The Place of Dignity in a Woman's Choices

“You are the Worst Kind of Animal. A Butcher by Day and a Pussy Cat by Night.”
― Monroe Ariel, Her OutSpoken Lips: A Collection of Poems Through the Eyes of a Woman Pushed to the Edge Part II

“In the end, it was the secrets that held me hostage and fuelled my depression, but, once released, emancipation - from fear, shame, guilt and judgement - was finally possible.”
― B.G. Bowers, Death and Life

“...it only takes one voice, at the right pitch, to start an avalanche.”
― Dianna Hardy, Return of the Wolf