Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Trauma happens to us, our friends, our families, and our neighbors. Research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has shown that one in five Americans was sexually molested as a child; one in four was beaten by a parent to the point of a mark being left on their body; and one in three couples engages in physical violence. A quarter of us grew up with alcoholic relatives, and one out of eight witnessed their mother being beaten or hit.
Bessel van der Kolk
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Scamorza, an Italian curd cheese often labelled 'smoked mozzarella,' melts fantastically well.
Yotam Ottolenghi
I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very poor, gave me up to two wonderful people, my foster parents.
Walter Dean Myers
The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.
Camille Paglia
I saw how the night came, Came striding like the color of the heavy hemlocks. I felt afraid. And I remembered the cry of the peacocks.
Wallace Stevens
I know I've dreamed you, a sin and a lie I have my freedom but I don't have much time Faith has been broken, tears must be cried Let's do some living, after we die Wild horses couldn't drag me away Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day…
Mick Jagger
The Rolling Stones
Manhood is what we profess, and what we try to get across.
James Brown
That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.
Nicholson Baker
Love is never easy. It never is. And I'm not just talking about girl and guy, girlfriend, boyfriend, husband and wife. I'm talking about family, friends - all of that.
LeToya Luckett
Destiny's Child
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
Barbara Tuchman
I pride myself in the fact that in the six months tour of Cinderella, I didn't take one show off.
Lea Salonga
I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not and end up going extinct. We'd be the laughingstock of the aliens of the cosmos if that were the case.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Trauma happens to us, our friends, our families, and our neighbors. Research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has shown that one in five Americans was sexually molested as a child; one in four was beaten by a parent to the point of a mark being left on their body; and one in three couples engages in physical violence. A quarter of us grew up with alcoholic relatives, and one out of eight witnessed their mother being beaten or hit.
Bessel van der Kolk
