My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.

That the regime was willing to hit itts chief political constituency in the pocket was a clear sign of desperation.

Volatile expressions of anger and hostility combined with a tendency to blame others often result from feeling shame…. If you are shame-prone, any accusation directed at you, regardless of how mildly it may be delivered,...

Lovers are not snails; they don’t have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.

Self-protection keeps you from love, Mr. Knightley-all love. I am so sad at how I’ve kept them at a distance-the Muirs, Alex, Father John, Kyle, Hannah…Anyone and everyone who has ever stood by me. I...

The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpetrator, no matter how heartfelt. Rather, it must be based upon the self-protective capability of the victim. Until...

Talent is useful, but always keep your dagger sharp.

…Everyone struggles to guard their heart from breaking, when they should desire to have a heart that breaks…

We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of...

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

You don’t need a weapon to protect yourself.

It is almost as if we are all playing a big game of hide-and-go-seek. We all hide expecting to be found, but no one has been labelled the seeker. We stand behind the wall, at...

Raising Black children — female and male — in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not...

Blame doesn’t empower you. It keeps you stuck in a place you don’t want to be because you don’t want to make the temporary, but painful decision, to be responsible for the outcome of your...

Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.

Being in a state of denial is auniversally human response tosituations which threaten tooverwhelm. People who were abusedas children sometimes carry theirdenial like precious cargo without aport of destination. It enabled us tosurvive our childhood...

There’s often a reason why people and dogs bite. It’s about self-protection. If we respect what we may not know about the suffering of others and look at them compassionately, we open the door that...

Never allow yourself to become a choice in any relationship. The moment you do is when you have reduced your loved one’s affections to a daily biological question: Should I take a dump here or...