1,449 Quotes About Memoir

Perhaps in the future, we will live in a world where people's actions are guided by principles of the rule of law, and not by face ... To live in China now is a big risk ... I have no confidence in the [legal] system" - Karen Patterson, spoken just after Wu Yuren's trial in November 2010, Beijing, China.

For this entire walk, my desire had ashamed me, as if my wanting to be kissed that night mitigated the fault of Junior's sudden deafness. I'd been given stacks of reasons to blame myself for an act of violence committed by another. I had blamed my flirting for his subsequent felony. My college taught me: my rape was my shame. Everyone I'd trusted asked only what I might have done to let it happen. In my gut, I'd always believed I'd caused it. I finally questioned it.

Mine is a gruesome job, but for a scientist with a love for the mechanics of the human body, a great one.

My handbag turned into a diaper bag for the chronically ill.

Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving.

My therapist opens my wounds a little deeper, then picks at the scabs.

She has learned to love. To fear. To hate. And then to love again. Through it all, she writes.” ~Once Upon A Time There Was A Girl

Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told the truth about what really went on in your family, a long bony white finger would emerge from a cloud and point to you, while a chilling voice thundered, "We *told* you not to tell." But that was then. Just put down on paper everything you can remember now about your parents and siblings and relatives and neighbors, and we will deal with libel later on.

You can make a difference in another person's life and not realize it, just by giving them One Moment of your time, One Memory to recall, One Motion that tells them they are not alone! OM!