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• You know, these conservative women, somebody really needs to go repossess their ovaries. Really, truly, they have no right to them. They are fabulous, little organs and they have absolutely no right to be estrogen-bearing beings. Okay? Just cut 'em off, let 'em go through the hot flashes, let 'em just sit there and complain about hormone therapy, okay? Just take the ovaries and get it over with. Because they don't deserve to have estrogen. They really don't. It's a privilege.

  Randi Rhodes

  Cutting, Hot Flashes, Ovaries

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• Over the years, HIV/AIDS activists and their allies have been pioneers in creating new frontiers in the medical establishment. Through their efforts, the FDA drug approval procedures were reformed so promising new therapies could reach desperate patients quicker.

  David Mixner

  Fda, Years, Creating

  "Why The HIV/AIDS Community Should Care About the New Medicare Panel" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2010.

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• Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Misery, Unhappiness, Hysterical

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• I just like the child's nightmares and therapy, once an experience has found the light of day I'm no longer under its spell, I'm free to tell it. I hope in telling honestly I can in some way help other people to do so also.

  Beth Orton

  Children, Helping Others, Light

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Laughter is therapy-an instant vacation.

  Bob Hope

  Laughter, Vacation, Instant

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• I was able to not fold and go in a corner because I had my writing as therapy, but also as my tool for struggle.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Struggle, Writing, Tools

  "A Voice in Haiti’s Chorus". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. 2010.

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• We live in a world where virtually everybody expects there's going to be some reasonable therapy for virtually any situation.

  Dean Kamen

  World, Situation, Reasonable

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. June 9, 2009.

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• People don't come to therapy for exclamation; they come for experience.

  Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

  Life, People, Exclamation

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• The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don't get better. You have to back it up with action, action, action.

  Albert Ellis

  Wise, Feel Better, Get Better

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• Across the Atlantic, commercial therapy of all kinds provides so many more comfortable outlets for people when they are under pressure. The English tradition is to get a grip, whereas the American version is to get in touch with your feelings, to say: 'I'm a good person. Isn't it terrible when bad things happen to people like me?'

  Peter York

  People, Feelings, Pressure

  "The man and the marabou" by Peter York, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.

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• For the only therapy is life. The patient must learn to live, to live with his split, his conflict, his ambivalence, which no therapy can take away, for if it could, it would take with it the actual spring of life.

  Otto Rank

  Spring, Splits, Patient

  Otto Rank (1936). “Will therapy: an analysis of the therapeutic process in terms of relationship”

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• Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.

  Alain de Botton

  Pain, Insomnia, Injury

  Twitter post from Sep 18, 2012

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• Some friends of mine work in an office. They were getting really nervous from their coffee breaks, so they started to have wig breaks. They tried on wigs for 15 minutes. They found this relaxing. So that's Wig Therapy.

  Laurie Anderson

  Coffee, Office, Wigs

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• Work is honorable. It is good therapy for most problems. It is the antidote for worry. It is the equalizer for deficiency of native endowment. Work makes it possible for the average to approach genius. What we may lack in aptitude, we can make up for in performance. . . .

  J. Richard Clarke

  Work, Average, Worry

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• Yoga calms me down. It's a therapy session, a workout and meditation all at the same time!

  Jennifer Aniston

  Workout, Yoga, Meditation

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• Sometimes sweat is the best form of therapy.

  Samantha Dunn

  Women, Sweat, Wellness

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• I don’t believe in “laying to rest” the past. There are wounds we won’t get over. There are things that happen to us that, no matter how hard we try to forget, no matter with what fortitude we face them, what mix of religion and therapy we swallow, what finished and durable forms of art we turn them into, are going to go on happening inside of us for as long as our brains are alive.

  Christian Wiman

  Art, Believe, Past

  Christian Wiman (2013). “Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet”, p.57, Copper Canyon Press

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• My advice is, don't spend money on therapy.
  Spend it in a record store.

  Wim Wenders

  Advice, Records, Stores

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• I talk about therapy a lot because I love therapy. It has just enriched my life.

  Eva Mendes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• At my age, I know myself. If I make a project, it's a way to help me. I don't do it for therapeutic reasons, but I know that the therapy can be a side profit.

  Sophie Calle

  Age, Way, Sides

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Good therapy, gently but firmly, moves people out of denial and compartmentalization. It helps clients to develop richer inner lives and greater self-knowledge. It teaches clients to live harmoniously with others and it enhances Existential consciousness, and allows people to take responsibility for their effects on the world at large. For me , happiness is about appreciating what one has. Practically speaking,this means lowering expectations about what is fair, possible and likely. It means,finding pleasure in the ordinary.

  Mary Pipher

  Moving, Mean, Responsibility

  Mary Pipher (2009). “Letters to a Young Therapist: Stories of Hope and Healing”, p.16, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I wasn't going to get such a nice car - I was going to get a cute little hybrid or something, keep the trees happy - but then my grandfather died, and it was all: retail therapy!

  Chris Colfer

  Cute, Nice, Car

  "*Glee'*s Chris Colfer Wants to Show You His Ass". Interview with Brett Berk, www.vanityfair.com. April 27, 2010.

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• If art is therapy, if art is to inspire, if art is a weapon, if it is a medicine to heal soul wounds, if it makes one not feel alone in his or her visions, or if it serves as transportation to a higher self, then that is where I aspire to live every day.

  Rudy Gutierrez

  Art, Self, Medicine

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