“Vulnerability is not weakness, and the uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure we face every day are not optional.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“To me, the trauma is very important—we wouldn’t be having these conversations without acknowledging that trauma. But everywhere, too, we’re constantly reading about the burnout of interrogating that trauma, of trying to initiate change, of self-care, of taking social media breaks, etc. which has me…”— Daniel Peña, blog.pshares.org
“Trauma is not mutually exclusive. That because one generation faced incredible trauma, it does not mean that subsequent generations’ trauma doesn’t matter. The definition of trauma does not drift to fit the most extreme version of that word.”— Daniel Peña, blog.pshares.org
“At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.”— George Orwell, orwell.ru
“It is easy to criticize a sensationalist talk show for, say, giving a neo-Nazi a platform to voice hateful rhetoric. But by exposing these sorts of people rather than censoring them, these shows reveal the underlying inconsistencies in their doctrines. Instead of appearing frightening, these people’…”— Douglas Rushkoff, amazon.com