36 Quotes by Maureen Brady

  • Author Maureen Brady
  • Quote

    It is not my wish to stay home so much that I become isolated, but to use the comforting influence of my home to restore and gather myself after each step I take in my expanding ability to participate in the world.

  • Tags
  • Share




  • Author Maureen Brady
  • Quote

    Our need to be “greater than” or “less than” has been a defense against toxic shame. A shameful act was committed upon us. The perpetrator walked away, leaving us with the shame. We absorbed the notion that we are somehow defective. To cover for this we constructed a false self, a masked self. And it is this self that is the overachiever or the dunce, the tramp or the puritan, the powermonger or the pathetic loser.

  • Share

  • Author Maureen Brady
  • Quote

    For change to occur in us, we must be willing to enter the wilderness of the unknown and to wander in unfamiliar territory, directionless and often in the darkness... We do not need to keep every little thing under control. In fact, we find ourselves only by allowing some falling apart to happen.

  • Share

  • Author Maureen Brady
  • Quote

    When we first begin to take power more directly, after long having kept our relationship to it underground... it is natural that we experience anxiety, even guilt, at putting ourselves first. These feeling let us know we are taking action; they do not need to stop us.

  • Share

  • Author Maureen Brady
  • Quote

    It is a childish notion that once established, our boundaries will never be transgressed again... We shall have to stand for ourselves repeatedly for the rest of our lives. As we practice doing this, we come to greater ease... Eventually it may float over entirely into the positive realm – becoming only another chance to demonstrated our worthiness.

  • Share

  • Author Maureen Brady
  • Quote

    In order to survive our youth, many of us became sensitized to which conditions we had to play to, to receive attention. No wonder we mistook this attention for love. We thought love came in finite quantities – it had to be competed for among siblings, or it had to be paid for with exacting dues.

  • Share