So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the …

- Ellen Bass

Visualizing how you want to be is [an] effective way to move toward your goal.

- Ellen Bass

I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave.

- Ellen Bass

There is a comfort in knowing that you don’t have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal.

- Ellen Bass

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…

- Ellen Bass

Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.

- Ellen Bass

What would people look like if we could see them as they are, soaked in honey, stung and swollen, reckless, pinned against time?

- Ellen Bass

No matter how many vitamins you take, how much Pilates, you'll lose your keys, your hair and your memory.

- Ellen Bass

Everyone has the right to tell the truth about her own life.

- Ellen Bass