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Pamela Stephenson
Australian
Actress
About the author
So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.
Pamela Stephenson,
Australian
Actress
#People
#Abuse
Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity.
Pamela Stephenson,
Australian
Actress
#Being
I don't like the term mid-life crisis.
Pamela Stephenson,
Australian
Actress
#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,
Australian
Actress
#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,
Australian
Actress
#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,
Australian
Actress
#Life
#Listening
#Choices
#Feelings
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,
Australian
Actress
#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,
Australian
Actress
#Career
#Woman
#Funny
Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.
Pamela Stephenson,
Australian
Actress
#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,
Australian
Actress
#People
#Saying
Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
Pamela Stephenson,
Australian
Actress
#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,
Australian
Actress
Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.
Pamela Stephenson,
Australian
Actress
#Suffering
#Sea
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,
Australian
Actress
#People
#Experience
#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,
Australian
Actress
#Work
#Being
There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.
Pamela Stephenson,
Australian
Actress
#Life
#Talking
There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.
Pamela Stephenson,
Australian
Actress
#May
#Autobiography
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,
Australian
Actress
#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,
Australian
Actress
#Childhood
#HusbChallenge
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,
Australian
Actress
#Thought
#Idea
We have a couple of dogs, but I wouldn't describe myself as an animal person.
Pamela Stephenson,
Australian
Actress
#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,
Australian
Actress
#Now
#Feet
#Shame
Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.
Pamela Stephenson,
Australian
Actress
#Biography