“Shame you had such low standards for yourself.”— Rightor Doyle, Mistress Mira, Nana Mensah, imdb.com
“A relationship coming to an end when I wanted it to continue is quite bad, but discovering that other people knew it would be ending long before I did is intolerable.”— Brandy Jensen, jezebel.com
“We shouldn’t tolerate anyone being shamed, humiliated or dehumanized - even the people who bring out our rage.”— Brené Brown, facebook.com
“That anyone could think us a romance nauseated me, while crime and drama seemed overblown.”— Bindu Bansinath, nytimes.com
“So what I mean when I say that it’s different being a woman writer, and particularly a mother who is also a writer, is that I don’t think male authors are physically assaulted by their spouses for gaining a modicum of success.”— Anonymous, longreads.com
“What almost no one understands is how every level of severity in this diagnosis is underpinned by shame. Which means we don’t “fix it” by cutting people down to size and reminding folks of their inadequacies and smallness. Shame is more likely to be the cause of these behaviors, not the cure.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“If you’ve been poor, you know what that feels like. You ashamed all the time. Feels like it’s your fault.”— Dave Chappelle, Himself, Dave Chappelle, imdb.com
“I ain't ashamed, but I wouldn't put it on my gravestone.”— Nick Antosca, Michelle Dean, Mel, Chloe Sevigny, imdb.com
“You left a child unaccompanied by a guardian or a lawyer with these men in this room, for hours! Shame on you.”— Ava DuVernay, Julian Breece, Sharon Salaam, Aunjanue Ellis, imdb.com
“Everyone has bodies, right. It's nothing to be ashamed of.”— Laurie Nunn, Otis Milburn, Asa Butterfield, imdb.com
“Gentlemen of the court, there are times that I'm ashamed to be a member of the human race and this is one such occasion.”— Stanley Kubrick, Calder Willingham, Jim Thompson, Col. Dax, Kirk Douglas, imdb.com
“At the center of vulnerability, we find shame, fear, grief, anxiety, uncertainty, scarcity, but this also the birthplace of love belong and joy.”— Brené Brown, Herself, Brené Brown, imdb.com
“It is a mark of shame that in the wealthiest country in the world people are dying because they can’t afford lifesaving medicine.”— Ilhan Omar, insightnews.com
“I was completely aware that I’d stolen from a person who had created something. I was paranoid that it would come back to haunt me and there was a hot minute when the internet exploded and everything was digitized when I worried I’d get caught. The shame stopped me from doing it again.”— Alexa Tsoulis-Reay, thecut.com
“I'm the one who should be ashamed. I don't understand my own soul.”— Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Woodcutter, Takashi Shimura, imdb.com
“Rango: Us reptiles gotta stick together. Right, my brother? Buford: I'm an amphibian. Rango: Ain't no shame in that.”— John Logan, Gore Verbinski, James Ward Byrkit, Rango (voice), Johnny Depp, imdb.com
“All you have to be is a human being. That’s success. When you’re a human being, life feels satisfying.”— Heather Havrilesky, thecut.com
“it’s such a shame that you will finally have to learn that there are consequences to treating women like they’re nothing.”— Amanda Lovelace, instagram.com