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

— Stephanie Foo What My Bones Know (2022)

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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)

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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.

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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.

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

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Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.

Louis Althusser Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1968)

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