Abuse Denial Quotes

#1. This feeling, this tentative flutter in her belly - this was hers. This was sunlight on her face. It was the warmth she'd dreamed of. It was a curl of honest attraction, the first she'd experienced in years.

Courtney Milan

#2. Denial is commonly found among persons with dissociative disorders. My favorite quotation from such a client is, "We are not multiple, we made it all up." I have heard this from several different clients. When I hear it, I politely inquire, "And who is we?

Alison Miller

#3. We need to stop allowing the unsupported testimony of children who are of an age where they can barely distinguish fantasy and reality.

Mary Pride

#4. Until we accept that our children have much more of a risk of being sexually abused than drowning in a pool, being struck by a car, stricken with cancer, hurt by a vaccination, or diagnosed with ebola, we contribute to a culture of panic and ignorance.

Ann Brasco

#5. The worst abuse of freedom is to deny that it exists.

Marty Rubin

#6. Tummy Time - When a parent lays their baby on their tummy to strengthen and develop physically. Also called forgetting the child on the floor and giving it a name.

Olive Hunter

#7. The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education.

Joshua Jackson

#8. Sometimes, Chase ... it's the emotional wounds that hurt the most." I pushed back the anger and sighed. "I'd rather he beat me. Cuts heal, bruises fade - but broken hearts? They carry scars for a lifetime.

Rachel Van Dyken

#9. In order to believe clients' accounts of trauma, you need to suspend any pre-conceived notions that you have about what is possible and impossible in human experience. As simple as they may sound, it may be difficult to do so.

Aphrodite Matsakis

#10. Societies have a peculiar way of relating, or more accurately non-relating, to rape maybe because it is so vicious, they choose to live in denial about it.

Aysha Taryam

#11. Experience counts in government even more than in business.

Mo Ibrahim

#12. Farrukh, tonight you have won a dishwasher

Paul Torday

#13. Some of the experiences endured by human beings on this earth are virtually unbelievable.

Aphrodite Matsakis

#14. I can sit in denial of my life because in looking around I see how lucky I am to have survived it.

K. Farrell St. Germain

#15. Nothing is of its nature evil, and nothing is of its nature good. Evil is only excess, good is simply balance. All things are subject to abuse, all things are susceptible to beneficial use. And balance does not consist in denial, or excess of indulgence.

John Parsons

#16. Without realizing it, I fought to keep my two worlds separated. Without ever knowing why, I made sure, whenever possible that nothing passed between the compartmentalization I had created between the day child and the night child.
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Marilyn Van Derbur

#17. Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear so don't look and they'll stay farther away than you expect they would.

Brian Spellman

#18. Speaking out about ritual abuse brings more information and potential understanding about this issue to a society steeped in denial. There are many similar or related horrors in the world that are also denied.

Jadelinn

#19. With all due respect, many in the entertainment industry are deep into mind-altering substance abuse, and when one's logic and intellectual calculating powers are replaced with dopey feel-good, fantasy-driven denial, the democratic party serves them well.

Ted Nugent

#20. As recently as 1975, a basic American psychiatry textbook estimated that the frequency of all forms of incest as one case per million. [James Henderson, "Incest", in A. M. Freedman, H.I. Kaplan and B.J. Sadock, eds., Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 2nd ed. 1975 p. 1532.]

Judith Lewis Herman

#21. The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could do the day before.

Steve Ballmer

#22. Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.

Malala Yousafzai

#23. You must prune dead or dying wood.

Warren Giles

#24. As you may already know, post-traumatic stress disorder is extremely complex. Each client has a unique, perhaps virtually unbelievable, set of experiences, and an almost equally set of reactions to those experiences.

Aphrodite Matsakis

#25. Never vote for a candidate whose campaign promises include 'doing more for children.

Mary Pride

#26. On top of the abuse and neglect, denial heaps more hurt upon the child by requiring the child to alienate herself from reality and her own experience. In troubled families, abuse and neglect are permitted; it's the talking about them that is forbidden.

Marcia Sirota

#27. Driving lessons,' he raked down at her, his dark head lowering. 'Putting you behind the wheel of a Porsche would be like putting an arsonist in a barn!

Lynne Graham

#28. It was a beautiful lie that they had all been telling themselves - that you could have magic without monsters.

Anne Ursu

#29. From beginning to end, all this phony relationship can offer you is a toxic combination of fake love and real abuse. He constructs the psychopathic bond through deception and manipulation. You maintain it through self-sacrifice and denial.

Claudia Moscovici

#30. The major problem is that the public has been convinced that child abuse is a major problem.

Mary Pride

#31. That as long as I kept them apart, love would be sexless and sex loveless, endlessly repeating its cycle of self-denial and self-abuse.

Paul Monette

#32. Experience isn't any use. And yet, in quite another way, it might be. If only we weren't all such miserable fools and prudes and cowards.

Christopher Isherwood

#33. Sit peacefully in a church and think of church history: witchburning perhaps, or child abuse, genocide, the amassing of disgusting wealth, the repression of women, inquisitions, castrating child choir singers, the denial of Santa Claus and the support of fascists in power.

Kaz Cooke

#34. My mom called Grandma today and told her we would no longer be attending family parties. My mom told her we have had enough of being blamed for something Brian did and everyone brushing it off like it was no big deal.

Erin Merryn

#35. Without free speech no search for truth is possible ... no discovery of truth is useful ... Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.

Charles Bradlaugh

#36. If one abuses or neglects internal powers, external forces will act accordingly.

T.F. Hodge

#37. Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

Stefan Molyneux

#38. As I get older, I plan less, and I strategize less about my career and about things because you realize things happen as they're supposed to happen and the way they're supposed to happen.

Jonathan Jackson

#39. I can't get myself to say what happened next. I cannot cope with even thinking about this let alone living with it."
"It is so degrading and I try to forget, it hurts so much because she is my mother."
- Graham talks about being sexually abused by his mother

Carolyn Ainscough

#40. Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions

Alexander Graham Bell

#41. Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

Charles Bradlaugh

#42. I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

W.C. Fields