I really couldn't sit back and do nothing. As long as innocent people are being tortured and killed, I feel that it is our responsibility to do what we can to stop this.

It looked like people were sick, tired and starving, and it didn't seem like we were doing anything to help them. It just really shocked me that something like this could be going on.

There is no love without suffering.

Childhood trauma can range from having faces extreme violence and neglect to having confronted feelings of not belonging, being unwanted, or being chronically misunderstood. You may have grown up in an environment where your curiosity and enthusiasm were constantly devalued. Perhaps you were brought up in a family where your parents had unresolved traumas of their own, which impaired their ability to attend to your emotional needs. Or, you may have faced vicious sexual or physical attacks. In all such situations, you learn to compensate by developing defenses around your most vulnerabe parts.

One night I was driving and so infatuated with dipping French fries into my milk shake that I drove right through a stop sign. The cop who pulled me over had no mercy.

I married someone 30 years older than me, a doctor, a playboy who had a terrible Don Juan reputation.