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Unbroken: One Woman's Journey to Rebuild a Life Shattered by Violence. A True Story of Survival and Hope
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The Forgiveness Project
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It’s not every day that I’m invited to see a world premiere of a play, so I was really excited to fly over to Cork for a night to see the stage adaptation of Louise O’Neill’s novel “Asking for it” at The Everyman.
I met Mary and Dola from the Sexual Violence Centre in the foyer who gave me and my friend our tickets and then they introduced me to Louise. She told me Mary had told her I was coming... Read more of this blog post »
I met Mary and Dola from the Sexual Violence Centre in the foyer who gave me and my friend our tickets and then they introduced me to Louise. She told me Mary had told her I was coming... Read more of this blog post »
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"This was such a privilege to read this book. The story of a woman, who after being raped at thirteen years old, refused to let it define her. She is left traumatised, feeling guilty and believing it to be her fault she was raped. These and a myria..."
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I thought this was on of the most beautifully written books I have read in a long time, Ruth Hagan has an exquisite way with words. This is a story about loss and grief when Masha's little boy is drowned at aged two and the ripple effects this has on ...more |
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"So here we are again; that much anticipated second novel from an author who totally delighted me with her first book. Whilst I was very excited to receive my copy of Sally Red Shoes, I had that feeling of fear too. Would Ruth Hogan be able to matc..."
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"You know those books that you literally speed read eager to find out what happens next, turning the pages super fast devouring the words? Well this is NOT one of those books. In fact this is completely the opposite. I found I was actually pacin..."
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This is the story of a remarkable woman called Edith Eger who is a survivor of Auschwitz and one I won't forget for a long time. It resonated with me on so many levels and had so many mixed emotions whilst reading it. I am a second generation of a su ...more |
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“We are not defined by what knocks us down - we are defined by how we get back up”
― Unbroken: One Woman's Journey to Rebuild a Life Shattered by Violence. A True Story of Survival and Hope
― Unbroken: One Woman's Journey to Rebuild a Life Shattered by Violence. A True Story of Survival and Hope
“We are not defined by what knocks us down - we are defined by how e get back up”
― Unbroken: One Woman's Journey to Rebuild a Life Shattered by Violence. A True Story of Survival and Hope
― Unbroken: One Woman's Journey to Rebuild a Life Shattered by Violence. A True Story of Survival and Hope
“We are not defined by what knocks us down - we are defined by how we get back up”
― Unbroken: One Woman's Journey to Rebuild a Life Shattered by Violence. A True Story of Survival and Hope
― Unbroken: One Woman's Journey to Rebuild a Life Shattered by Violence. A True Story of Survival and Hope
“watch moms pick up, put down, lift, swing, load and carry fairly large loads all the time. We call these loads ‘children.’ Yet, when we get to the gym, we seem to think a woman needs to use very light loads. Like Milo and his calf, perhaps we should start women off with an eight-pound weight and progress upwards as the child grows.”
― Intervention: Course Corrections for the Athlete and Trainer
― Intervention: Course Corrections for the Athlete and Trainer
“If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?”
― Plain Truth
― Plain Truth
“We were kept pure for men, and then broken in by them. And what happened to us in the meantime was completely irrelevant in the pursuit of their pleasure, or their integrity, their masculinity. Were females really valued so little? Would my own daughters face the same fate?”
― Cut: One Woman's Fight Against FGM in Britain Today
― Cut: One Woman's Fight Against FGM in Britain Today
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