Stephanie Foo Quotes

born 1987

Stephanie Foo (born 1987) is a radio journalist, producer and author who was born in Malaysia and now lives in the USA. She has worked for Snap Judgment and This American Life.

Random Stephanie Foo quote

9 quotes

It takes an intellectual and physical effort to shove aside the comfortably worn neural pathways and go in a different direction.

What My Bones Know (2022)

Every villain's redemption arc begins with their origin story. (prologue)

What My Bones Know (2022)

Being healed isn’t about feeling nothing. Being healed is about feeling the appropriate emotions at the appropriate times and still being able to come back to yourself. That’s just life.

What My Bones Know (2022)

Capitalism and academic success have buried trauma.

Interview with The Guardian (2022)

The important thing in healing is being able to hold the nuance of it.

Interview with The Guardian (2022)

PTSD is an adaptation, a mechanism our genius bodies evolved to help us survive. (Chapter 43)

What My Bones Know (2022)

New York, the capital of neuroticism

prologue of What My Bones Know (2022)

the sadness of a lost childhood feels like yearning, impossible desire. It feels like a hollow, insatiable hunger.

What My Bones Know (2022)

You can’t heal without acknowledgment. We have to normalize therapy – not just, like, talk therapy or psychotherapy. We have to normalize different generations of Americans working through trauma.

Interview with The Guardian (2022)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Stephanie Foo (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.