Pamela Stephenson Quotes
"Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Being)
"I don't like the term mid-life crisis."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Crisis)
"I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Mind)
"I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Day, School, Ships)
"I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Life, Feelings, Choices, Listening)
"I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Family, HusbBooks)
"It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, actually facing the elements in a physical way is a very powerful thing."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Funny, Career, Woman)
"Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Love, Quality, Obsession, Obsessions)
"Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: People, Saying)
"Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Dreams, Sex)
"After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself."
- Pamela Stephenson
"Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Sea, Suffering)
"The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it's a sort of biblical thing. It's something that has happened to people in other centuries or in the context of religious experience."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Experience, People, Religious)
"The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Work, Being)
"There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Life, Talking)
"There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Autobiography, May)
"There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Impression)
"There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: HusbChallenge, Childhood)
"There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Thought, Idea)
"We have a couple of dogs, but I wouldn't describe myself as an animal person."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Dogs)
"When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now, I am struggling to get into my favourite high heels which is a shame, as I have so many."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Feet, Now, Shame)
"Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Biography)