Harriet Lerner Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• An intimate relationship is one in which neither party silences, sacrifices, or betrays the self and each party expresses strength and vulnerability, weakness and competence in a balanced way.

  Harriet Lerner

  Party, Sacrifice, Intimate Relationships

  Harriet Lerner (2009). “The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships”, p.3, Harper Collins

• Silence can pose a greater threat than the difficult truth.

  Harriet Lerner

  Silence, Difficult, Threat

  Harriet Goldhor Lerner (1996). “Life preservers: staying afloat in love and life”

• Before modern feminism, stories of female ambition were silenced or erased; even now, they are told with apology ("Yes, it's a great honor to be a Nobel Prize laureate, but really, what I love best is staying home and being a mother to Kevin and Annie").

  Harriet Lerner

  Mother, Home, Ambition

  Harriet Goldhor Lerner (1993). “The Dance of Deception: Pretending and Truth-Telling in Women's Lives”, Harpercollins

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