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The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
by Ellen Bass, Laura Davis (Goodreads Author) — published 1988 — 14 editions |
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The Human Line
— published 2007 |
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I Never Told Anyone: Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
— published 1983 — 2 editions |
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Mules of Love
— published 2002 — 2 editions |
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Beginning to Heal
by Ellen Bass, Laura Davis (Goodreads Author) — published 2012 — 8 editions |
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Free Your Mind
— 2 editions |
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Our Stunning Harvest: Poems
— published 1984 — 2 editions |
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Of separateness & merging: [poems]
— published 1977 |
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Trotz Allem: Wege Zur Selbstheilung Für Sexuell Missbrauchte Frauen
— published 1990 |
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I'm Not Your Laughing Daughter
by Ellen Bass, Hans Speier — published 1973 — 2 editions |
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“to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again.”
― Ellen Bass
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again.”
― Ellen Bass
“Everyone has the right to tell the truth about her own life.”
― Ellen Bass, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
― Ellen Bass, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
“Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again.”
― Ellen Bass
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again.”
― Ellen Bass
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