1. “I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that. I was about seven years old when I got my first big lesson.” (Gregory, “Shame”, para. 1) 2. “Everybody's got a Helene Tucker, a symbol of everything you want.” (Gregory, “Shame”, para. 2) 3. “Pregnant people get strange tastes. I was pregnant with poverty.” (Gregory, “Shame”, para. 6) Kinds of Discipline by John Holt 4. “The first and foremost is what we might call the Discipline of Nature or of Reality. When he is trying to do something real, if he does the wrong thing or doesn’t pile one block right on top of another, or tries to build on a slanting surface, his tower falls down.” (Holt, “Kinds of Discipline”, par. 1) 5. “Man is a social, a cultural animal. Children sense around them this culture, this network of agreements, customs, habits, and rules binding the adults together.” (Holt, “Kinds of Discipline”, par. 2) 6. “To bow to superior force makes us feel impotent and cowardly for not having had the strength or courage to resist. Worse, it makes us resentful and vengeful. (Holt, “Kinds of Discipline”, par. 3) My Strangled Speech by Dan Slater 7. “The stuttering rat always lurks.” (Slater, “My Strangled Speech”, par. 8) 8. “For a stutterer, every speech hang-up carves a little more confidence out of him, leaving behind an ever-deepening sinkhole of shame and self-hatred” (Slater, “My Strangled Speech”, par. 20) 9. “For all the empathy that can make a good speech therapist effective, perhaps there's one thing a non-stutterer can never understand: If we go to therapy, we think 9about it. If we don't go to therapy, we think about it. It's always there.” (Slater, “My Strangled Speech”, par. 31) Mirror Mirror on the Wall by John Leo 10. “ (…) beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” (Leo, “Mirror Mirror on the Wall”, par. 1) 11. “ In the long history of images and beauty, one staple is the male tendency to spot new flaws in women, and the female tendency to work and suffer to remedy them.” (Leo, “Mirror Mirror on the Wall”, par. 6) 12. “(…) the sexy beautiful women have seemed “fictionalized,” set apart from real life.” (Leo, “Mirror Mirror on the Wall”, par. 10) The Pregnancy Trap by Gerry Garibaldi 13. “In today's urban high school, there is no shame or social ostracism when girls become pregnant” (Garibaldi, “The Pregnancy Trap”, par. 2) 14. “In theory, this provision of services is humane and defensible, an essential safety net for the most vulnerable — children who have children. In practice it is a monolithic public endorsement of single motherhood — one that has turned our urban high schools into puppy mills.” (Garibaldi, “The Pregnancy Trap”, par. 13) 15. “The path for young, unwed mothers — and for their children — can be brutal” (Garibaldi, “The Pregnancy Trap”, par. 38)