AtomicQuote

Frances Mayes Quote

Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.

Frances Mayes

Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.

Tags: childhood trauma, father, forgiveness, frances mayes, memoir, southern, southerners

Related Quotes

Childhood trauma does not come in one single package.

Asa Don Brown

Childhood trauma does not come in one single package.

Tags: child abuse, child trauma, childhood, childhood abuse, childhood trauma, childhood traumas, posttraumatic stress disorder, psychologist, psychology, ptsd

The second factor helping to bring the dissociative disorders back into the mainstream was the Vietnam War. For sociological reasons originating outside psychology and psychiatry, the Vietnam War and...

Colin A. Ross

The second factor helping to bring the dissociative disorders back into the mainstream was the Vietnam War. For sociological reasons originating outside psychology and psychiatry, the Vietnam War and...

Tags: child abuse, childhood abuse, childhood trauma, dissociative disorders, dissociative identity disorder, psychology, ptsd, trauma memory, vietname war

You survived by seizing every tiny drop of love you could find anywhere, and milking it, relishing it, for all it was worth. And as you grew up, you sought love, anywhere you could find it, whether it...

Rachel Reiland

You survived by seizing every tiny drop of love you could find anywhere, and milking it, relishing it, for all it was worth. And as you grew up, you sought love, anywhere you could find it, whether it...

Tags: bpd, childhood trauma, inspirational, love, mental illness

The initial trauma of a young child may go underground but it will return to haunt us.

James Garbarino

The initial trauma of a young child may go underground but it will return to haunt us.

Tags: child abuse, child sexual abuse, child trauma, childhood abuse, childhood trauma, haunted, post traumatic stress disorder, ptsd, trauma, traumatized

After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.

Mary Oliver

After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.

Tags: childhood trauma, healing, rebirth, reinvention, suffering

There's no weakness as great as false strength.

Stefan Molyneux

There's no weakness as great as false strength.

Tags: abuse, childhood trauma, false self, psychology, self esteem, self knowledge, therapy, trauma

It never really ends...Children surviving through the cold winds of neglect, and all kinds of misfortune and vile treatment.We see them everyday, with broken smiles that endure the painful kicking of...

Chinonye J. Chidolue

It never really ends...Children surviving through the cold winds of neglect, and all kinds of misfortune and vile treatment.We see them everyday, with broken smiles that endure the painful kicking of...

Tags: child, child abuse, child campaign, child dreams, child hero, child maltreatment, child neglect, child rights, child sexual abuse, childhood

His wife killed him. Too simple. His childhood, his mother, his father, his siblings? Even if the scars of childhood heal, you never grow out of being vulnerable. Age is no shield against trauma.

Mario Puzo

His wife killed him. Too simple. His childhood, his mother, his father, his siblings? Even if the scars of childhood heal, you never grow out of being vulnerable. Age is no shield against trauma.

Tags: childhood trauma, death, trauma, vunerable

Since there was nothing at all I was certain of, since I needed to be provided at every instant with a new confirmation of my existence, since nothing was in my very own, undoubted, sole possession, d...

Franz Kafka

Since there was nothing at all I was certain of, since I needed to be provided at every instant with a new confirmation of my existence, since nothing was in my very own, undoubted, sole possession, d...

Tags: childhood trauma, narcissism, narcissistic personality, shame

When people encounter the free market and they recoil or react negatively to it, they're merely confessing that voluntaryism, trade and negotiation are foreign and threatening to them, which tells you...

Stefan Molyneux

When people encounter the free market and they recoil or react negatively to it, they're merely confessing that voluntaryism, trade and negotiation are foreign and threatening to them, which tells you...

Tags: anarchy, ancap, austrian school of economics, capitalism, child abuse, childhood trauma, economics, free markets, freedom, libertarian
About Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes (born March 23, 1940) is an American writer. Her 1996 memoir Under the Tuscan Sun was on the New York Times Best Seller list for over two years and was the basis for the film Under the Tuscan Sun.