Top 100 Bancroft's Quotes
#1. When a forty-minute swim in the Hendrix's underground pool failed to dispel either the longing for Miriam Bancroft's torrid company or the Merge Nine hangover, I did the only thing I felt equipped for. I ordered painkillers from room service, and went shopping.
Richard K. Morgan
#2. Abuse and respect are diametric opposites: You do not respect someone whom you abuse, and you do not abuse someone whom you respect.
Lundy Bancroft
#3. One of the prevalent features of life with an angry or controlling partner is that he frequently tells you what you should think and tries to get you to doubt or devalue your own perceptions and beliefs.
Lundy Bancroft
#4. Skydiving is something I've never done! And I am very excited to take the leap with a community of like-minded courageous women.
Ann Bancroft
#5. I find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history.
George Bancroft
#6. THE ABUSER'S PROBLEM IS NOT THAT HE RESPONDS INAPPROPRIATELY TO CONFLICT. HIS ABUSIVENESS IS OPERATING PRIOR TO THE CONFLICT: IT USUALLY CREATES THE CONFLICT, AND IT DETERMINES THE SHAPE THE CONFLICT TAKES.
Lundy Bancroft
#7. Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it.
Anne Bancroft
#8. Suits me. I'd rather be a nothing at the center of everything than a puffed-up somebody at the edge of it all." She said this in her usual unguarded way. And without meaning to, she had described him exactly: a puffed-up somebody at the edge of it all.
Josiah Bancroft
#9. I'm glad your self-righteousness has given you some exercise, but you forget: we are not such a tidy, reasonable, and humane race. Our thoughts don't stand in grammatical rows, our hearts don't draw equations, our consciences don't have the benefit of historians whispering the answers to us.
Josiah Bancroft
#10. In reality, to remain neutral is to collude with the abusive man, whether or not that is your goal. If you are aware of chronic or severe mistreatment and do not speak out against it, your silence communicates implicitly that you see nothing unacceptable taking place.
Lundy Bancroft
#11. RESEARCH INDICATES THAT A WOMAN'S INTUITIVE SENSE OF WHETHER OR NOT HER PARTNER WILL BE VIOLENT TOWARD HER IS A SUBSTANTIALLY MORE ACCURATE PREDICTOR OF FUTURE VIOLENCE THAN ANY OTHER WARNING SIGN.
Lundy Bancroft
#12. I think that women on expeditions often get sucked into giving 150 percent of themselves because they feel they have to prove themselves physically equal to men. We get ourselves into trouble and burn out.
Ann Bancroft
#13. Even beauty diminishes with study. It is better to glance than gawk.
Josiah Bancroft
#14. Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary.
Ann Bancroft
#15. My first expedition was at about the age of eight.
Ann Bancroft
#16. I can't solve his problems, and it's not my fault that he thinks I should.
Lundy Bancroft
#17. I don't quite jump for joy, but I am awfully glad to see him.
Anne Bancroft
#18. To push behind the dog sled and run in front of the dog sled. That was always an interesting job.
Ann Bancroft
#19. A woman can feel that she is losing her mind - or develop actual psychiatric symptoms - if the obvious realities of her life, including abuse, are denied repeatedly by her partner.
Lundy Bancroft
#20. The U.S. Surgeon General has declared that attacks by male partners are the number one cause of injury to women between the ages of fifteen and forty-four.
Lundy Bancroft
#21. If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
George Bancroft
#22. Water links us all as human beings. Everyone needs water, and we all have challenges about it, no matter where we live. Yet even in the U.S., people aren't aware of problems facing water.
Ann Bancroft
#23. Abuse is the product of a mentality that excuses and condones bullying and exploitation, that promotes superiority and disrespect, and that casts responsibility on to the oppressed.
Lundy Bancroft
#24. I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
Ann Bancroft
#25. So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.
Anne Bancroft
#26. Abusiveness can be thought of as a recipe that involves a consistent set of ingredients: control, entitlement, disrespect, excuses, and justifications (including victim blaming) - elements that are always present, often accompanied by physical intimidation or violence.
Lundy Bancroft
#27. Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
George Bancroft
#28. There is a world-old controversy that crops up whenever women attempt to enter a new field. Is a woman fit for that work? It would seem that a woman's success in any particular field would prove her fitness for that work, without regard to theories to the contrary.
Ruth Bancroft Law
#29. A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.
Ann Bancroft
#30. For decades, many therapists have been attempting to help abusive men change by guiding them in identifying and expressing feelings. Alas, this well-meaning but misguided approach actually feeds the abuser's selfish focus on himself, which is an important force driving his abusiveness.
Lundy Bancroft
#31. -He drives recklessly or speeds up when he's angry.
-He punches walls or kicks doors.
-He throws things around, even if they don't hit you.
Lundy Bancroft
#32. It's really important that, as women, we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.
Anne Bancroft
#33. If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely - by that time, you're both dead.
Anne Bancroft
#34. Yes, I hear that people who suffer from brain damage are quite happy. That's what I always wanted for you, Edith: for you to be happy, no matter how many blows to the head it takes.
Josiah Bancroft
#35. And then there's also this element of - some people would describe it as spirits or a presence that appears when things are very difficult, physically and emotionally. You know, when you're really putting out. So the third man aura is sort of an appearance. It's the yeti.
Ann Bancroft
#36. HE ISN'T ABUSIVE BECAUSE HE IS ANGRY; HE'S ANGRY BECAUSE HE'S ABUSIVE.
Lundy Bancroft
#37. For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise?
Ann Bancroft
#38. We shouldn't have to go around congratulating each other for behaving with basic human dignity.
Josiah Bancroft
#39. The aim of Zen training is to attain the state of consciousness which occurs when the individual ego is emptied of itself and becomes identified with the infinite reality of all things.
Anne Bancroft
#40. In short, the abusive mentality is the mentality of oppression.
Lundy Bancroft
#41. The things we overcome in life really become our strengths.
Anne Bancroft
#42. The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.
George Bancroft
#43. My brother Bill, who is a year older, is a climber, and when I was in the seventh grade, he taught me how to rappel off the frozen waterfall in our backyard.
Ann Bancroft
#44. Ok.. So are you goin'a let him bluetube your tweeter?
Bella Bancroft
#45. The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present.
Anne Bancroft
#46. The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.
George Bancroft
#47. One of the basic human rights he takes away from you is the right to be angry with him.
Lundy Bancroft
#48. Abuse counselors say of the abusive client: When he looks at himself in the morning and sees his dirty face, he sets about washing the mirror.
Lundy Bancroft
#49. Alcohol cannot create an abuser, and sobriety cannot cure one. The only way a man can overcome his abusiveness is by dealing with his abusiveness. And you are not "enabling" your partner to mistreat you; he is entirely responsible for his own actions.
Lundy Bancroft
#50. I wish I could somehow recover all those years I wasted waiting around for him to deal with his issues." Save yourself that sadness if you can, by insisting on nothing less than complete respect.
Lundy Bancroft
#52. I give a tremendous amount of weight to the mental aspect of physical activity and what it does for me.
Ann Bancroft
#54. Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
George Bancroft
#55. The gaps are part of the set, too," she'd said. "You can't replace them. I know how each piece was broken or lost. I broke a plate myself when I was nine. Now I'm an immortal part of the pattern. I'll take my gaps, thank you.
Josiah Bancroft
#56. I had acquired an undeniable mystique - if only to the Bancroft butt-room boys. Don't forget: Miss Frost was an older woman, and that goes a long way with boys - even if the older woman has a penis!
John Irving
#57. The voices of women need to be heard. The volume needs to be turned up.
Ann Bancroft
#58. Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.
George Bancroft
#59. Everyone in my family is a risk taker in his or her own way.
Ann Bancroft
#60. It is fine to commiserate with a man about his bad experience with a previous partner, but the instant he uses her as an excuse to mistreat you, stop believing anything he tells you about that relationship and instead recognize it as a sign that he has problems with relating to women.
Lundy Bancroft
#61. The scars from mental cruelty can be as deep and long-lasting as wounds from punches or slaps but are often not as
obvious. In fact, even among women who have experienced violence from a partner, half or more report that the man's emotional abuse is what is causing them the greatest harm.
Lundy Bancroft
#62. What's so ludicrous about Rafael wanting to travel?'
'He has a life here. He's a Bancroft, for God's sake.'
'I believe he thinks he's already explored that aspect of his life to death, Quinlan.
Suzanne Enoch
#63. It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.
George Bancroft
#64. I have an opportunity now with some of the projects I've done, i.e. the North Pole and the South Pole, to speak to a larger audience and talk about things that have nothing to do with physical education or special ed.
Ann Bancroft
#65. I had been very close to Anne Bancroft when we worked together in The Miracle Worker.
Patty Duke
#66. This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return.
Ann Bancroft
#67. I have never seen a client make a serious effort to confront his abusiveness unless somebody required him to do the work. The abuser who truly enters counseling voluntarily, with no one holding anything over his head, quits within a few sessions, unless he finds a counselor he can manipulate.
Lundy Bancroft
#69. I'd never had so much pleasure with another human being.
Anne Bancroft
#70. One-on-one approaches to overcoming abuse work well only when the wider community pulls together to create an environment in which the victims are supported and the abusers held accountable.
Lundy Bancroft
#71. I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it?
Anne Bancroft
#72. Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
George Bancroft
#73. The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.
George Bancroft
#74. Some people feel threatened by the concept that abuse is a solvable problem, because if it is, there's no excuse for not solving it.
Lundy Bancroft
#75. He believed true love was more like an education: it was deep and subtle and never complete. The
Josiah Bancroft
#76. Like Bancroft, MacIntyre had been a man of power, and like all men of power, when he talked of prices worth paying, you could be sure of one thing. Someone else was paying.
Richard K. Morgan
#77. I love weights, but it's too far to get to the gym. So I make the farm my gym: I split wood and haul tires and do work on the farm, and that's sort of my weight training portion.
Ann Bancroft
#78. Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
George Bancroft
#79. Senlin did not believe in that sort of love: sudden and selfish and insatiable. Love, as the poets so often painted it, was just bald lust wearing a pompous wig. He believed true love was more like an education: it was deep and subtle and never complete.
Josiah Bancroft
#80. Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
George Bancroft
#81. I'm Kristin Ortega, Organic Damage Division. Bancroft was my case.
Richard K. Morgan
#82. If the law is malleable, Mr. Senlin, if it bends and conforms to man, then man will become resolute in his flaws. The law exists to give shape to man's ideals. When you think about it, doesn't mercy serve the wicked at the expense of the law?
Josiah Bancroft
#83. Abusers drive wedges between people, by accident or by design.
Lundy Bancroft
#84. Girls should go on thinking that there is a world out there and that it is theirs for the taking.
Anne Bancroft
#85. Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.
George Bancroft
#86. We are, each of us, a multitude. I am not the man I was this morning, nor the man of yesterday. I am a throng of myself queued through time. We are, gentle reader, each a crowd within a crowd.
Josiah Bancroft
#88. Goethe, the great poet-philosopher, once wrote: "I find more and more that it is well to be on the side of the minority, since it is always the more intelligent.
Humphrey Bancroft Neill
#89. The vast majority of women who say that they are being abused are telling the truth. I know this to be true because the abusers let their guard down with me, belying their denial.
Lundy Bancroft
#90. I love that place where you get in running where you're just never out of breath and you just feel like you could go forever. I love that. I love feeling strong.
Ann Bancroft
#91. Abusers thrive on creating confusion, including confusion about the abuse itself.
Lundy Bancroft
#92. Whatever Marya's state, whatever mine, I will find her, and I will carry her home.
Josiah Bancroft
#93. Children do best when parents are neither overly strict nor overly permissive, providing firm structure but also allowing for dialogue, respectful conflict, and compromise.
Lundy Bancroft
#94. The handkerchief is the universal utensil of the seasoned traveler. It can be a sanitizing device, a seat cover, a dust mask, a garrote, a bandage, a gag, or a white flag. One may feel well-prepared with nothing but a pocket square.
Josiah Bancroft
#95. Bringing about change in an abuser generally requires four elements: (1) consequences, (2) education, (3) confrontation, and (4) accountability.
Lundy Bancroft
#96. Never believe a man's claim that he has to harm his partner in order to protect her; only abusers think this way.
Lundy Bancroft
#97. Suffering became a door for me into the presence of Christ as he really is, not as I expected him to be.
Barbara Bancroft
#98. When people conclude that anger causes abuse, they are confusing cause and effect. Ray was not abusive because he was angry; he was angry because he was abusive. Abusers carry attitudes that produce fury.
Lundy Bancroft
#99. I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a "serious actress" entails.
Cher
#100. The greatest way to get most husbands to eliminar la celulitis do one thing is to suggest that perhaps they're also old to do it.
Anne Bancroft
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