Emma Bonino Quotes

Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.

The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.

I don't believe in revenge. When people are bullies it's because of a deeper-rooted issue - either their family life is tough or they're being bullied by someone bigger than they are.

Trauma is not the sole province of victims. If that were true, soldiers returning from Afghanistan wouldn't suffer from PTSD.

So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it?

Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.

When you go through a traumatic event, there's a lot of shame that comes with that. A lot of loss of self-esteem. That can become debilitating.

My theory is that Kurt had a lot of residual pain from his childhood. And when you pile that on top of his experience in World War II - he was in Dresden when it was bombed and saw a city annihilated. When you combine those two things, my impression of Kurt Vonnegut at 84 was that he was a very pained and haunted man.

Hopefully as a result of 'The Frozen Ground,' more and more people will be aware of the horrible things that happen to ladies all over the world and give them respect. This movie is a love letter to those victims.

Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it.

We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression.

I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.

Such persons are windows through which one looks into terrible worlds.

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure

I was bullied about everything, from the way I looked to the fact that my father had been a dancer.

I was bullied in elementary to middle school. It messed with my self esteem.

The fact of the matter is that when you're in pain emotionally about your life, the color of your skin does not matter.

When you've got society calling you a burden and talking about how much money you're costing the state, it's bound to impact negatively on your mental health.

Being called ugly every day is not easy on the psyche.

Bullying made me feel insecure, alone, ugly, powerless, and hopeless at times.

The 'Horn 'OK' Pleassss' harassment incident and the mob attack there had sent me spiralling into a deep state of depression in 2008.

Negative public opinion of a conflict and the politicization of the military can negatively affect service members and contribute to PTSD.

When we have emotional pain in our lives, we are going to seek to relieve that pain in some way.

Violence is violence. Trauma is trauma. And we are taught to downplay it, even think about it as child's play.

I'm almost positive I have some type of PTSD. Almost a decade of my life was consumed by the prison system.