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Shahida Arabi

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Bestselling Author. Content Writer for Thought Catalog. Quotes about empowerment, healing, victory.
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“What is at the core of narcissists is not what is often referred to as low self-esteem. I don’t think that is accurate, but something that the people around them say to themselves to mollify their own rage at the narcissist, i.e. 'Oh, they only act that way, because they lack self-esteem.' What is really at the core of narcissists is an instability in their ability to feel and sustain feeling bigger, larger, smarter and more successful than everyone else which they need to feel stable.”
— Mark Goulston, Rage- Coming Soon From A Narcissist Near You
Tagged: Narcissistic Rage, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Entitlement, Rage, Narcissistic Injury, Self-Esteem, Myths About Narcissism, Myths About Narcissistic Personality Disorder
“There is a saying that when you’re a hammer the world looks like a nail. When you’re a narcissist, the world looks like it should approve, adore, agree and obey you. Anything less than that feels like an assault and because of that a narcissist feels justified in raging back at it.”
— Mark Goulston, Rage- Coming Soon From A Narcissist Near You
Tagged: Narcissistic Rage, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Entitlement, Rage, Narcissistic Injury
“When you hurt me, you hurt yourself
Don't hurt yourself, don't hurt yourself
When you love me, you love yourself
Love God herself
I am the dragon breathing fire
Beautiful mane I'm the lion”
— Beyoncé, Beyonce — Don't Hurt Yourself(Ft. Jack White)
Tagged: Song Lyrics, Lyrics, Powerful Women, Badass Women, Never Underestimate Her
“The heart is resilient, I mean literally. When a body is burned, the heart is the last organ to oxidize. While the rest of the body can catch flame like a polyester sheet on campfire, it takes hours to burn the heart to ash.”
— Ibi Kaslik, Skinny
Tagged: Beautiful Quotes, poetic prose, The Heart Is Resilient, Human Anatomy, Cardiovascular System, Art and Anatomy, The Human Body As Poetry, Quote of the Moment
“So I want all the girls watching here and now to know that a new day is on the horizon! And when that new day finally dawns, it will be because of a lot of magnificent women, many of whom are right here in this room tonight, and some pretty phenomenal men, fighting hard to make sure that they become the leaders who take us to the time when nobody ever has to say, ‘Me too’ again.”
— Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Winfrey’s Golden Globes Speech
Tagged: Marginalized Communities, Marginalized Voices, History In The Making, Life Narratives, Justice, The Truth, Fighting Corruption, Fighting Injustice, A Life of Service, Sexual Assault Awareness, MeToo, #metoo, Sexual Assault Victims, A Broken Culture, toxic masculinity, Recy Taylor, Time's Up, The Beauty of Resilience, Resilience, Power of Resilience, Never Give Up, Adversity, Rise Again
“ And I’ve interviewed and portrayed people who’ve withstood some of the ugliest things life can throw at you, but the one quality all of them seem to share is an ability to maintain hope for a brighter morning — even during our darkest nights.”
— Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Winfrey’s Golden Globes Speech
Tagged: Marginalized Communities, Marginalized Voices, History In The Making, Life Narratives, Justice, The Truth, Fighting Corruption, Fighting Injustice, A Life of Service, Sexual Assault Awareness, MeToo, #metoo, Sexual Assault Victims, A Broken Culture, toxic masculinity, Recy Taylor, Time's Up, The Beauty of Resilience, Resilience, Power of Resilience, Never Give Up, Adversity, Rise Again
“And for too long, women have not been heard or believed if they dared to speak their truth to the power of those men. But their time is up. Their time is up. Their time is up.”
— Oprah, Oprah Winfrey’s Golden Globes Speech
Tagged: Marginalized Communities, Marginalized Voices, History In The Making, Historical Moments Retold, Memoir, Life Narratives, Justice, The Truth, Fighting Corruption, Fighting Injustice, A Life of Service, Sexual Assault Awareness, MeToo, #metoo, Sexual Assault Victims, A Broken Culture, Men In Power, toxic masculinity, Recy Taylor, Time's Up
“And they’re someone else: Recy Taylor, a name I know and I think you should know, too. In 1944, Recy Taylor was a young wife and a mother. She was just walking home from a church service she’d attended in Abbeville, Ala., when she was abducted by six armed white men, raped and left blindfolded by the side of the road, coming home from church...The men who tried to destroy her were never persecuted. Recy Taylor died 10 days ago, just shy of her 98th birthday. She lived, as we all have lived, too many years in a culture broken by brutally powerful men.”
— Oprah, Oprah Winfrey’s Golden Globes Speech
Tagged: Marginalized Communities, Marginalized Voices, History In The Making, Historical Moments Retold, Memoir, Life Narratives, Justice, The Truth, Fighting Corruption, Fighting Injustice, A Life of Service, Sexual Assault Awareness, MeToo, #metoo, Sexual Assault Victims, A Broken Culture, Men In Power, toxic masculinity, Recy Taylor
“They are domestic workers and farmworkers; they are working in factories and they work in restaurants, and they’re in academia and engineering and medicine and science; they’re part of the world of tech and politics and business; they’re our athletes in the Olympics and they’re our soldiers in the military.”
— Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Winfrey’s Golden Globes Speech
Tagged: Marginalized Communities, Marginalized Voices, History In The Making, Historical Moments Retold, Memoir, Life Narratives, Justice, The Truth, Fighting Corruption, Fighting Injustice, A Life of Service, Sexual Assault Awareness, MeToo, #metoo, Sexual Assault Victims
“So I want tonight to express gratitude to all the women who have endured years of abuse and assault, because they — like my mother — had children to feed and bills to pay and dreams to pursue. They’re the women whose names we’ll never know.”
— Oprah, Oprah Winfrey’s Golden Globes Speech
Tagged: Marginalized Communities, Marginalized Voices, History In The Making, Historical Moments Retold, Memoir, Life Narratives, Justice, The Truth, Fighting Corruption, Fighting Injustice, A Life of Service, Sexual Assault Awareness, MeToo, #metoo