Bell Hooks Quotes About Shame

Quotes about: Shame

• Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.

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  White, Tools, Shame

• Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.

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  Shame, Produce, Trauma

• Think of all the women you know who will not allow themselves to be seen without makeup. I often wonder how they feel about themselves at night when they are climbing into bed with intimate partners. Are they overwhelmed with secret shame that someone sees them as they really are? Or do they sleep with rage that who they really are can be celebrated or cared for only in secret?

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  Sleep, Makeup, Night

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