Childhood Sexual Abuse Healing Quotes

#1. A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.

Bob Dylan

#2. At least for me, it takes more knowledge to write fiction than nonfiction. At least about someplace that I begin with a lot of ignorance about.

William T. Vollmann

#3. A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.

Susan Faludi

#4. The white moth of hope fluttered before her face.

Cornell Woolrich

#5. So, although my story is sometimes ugly, it's also beautiful.

Niki Krauss

#6. And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness ... . And this was most vexing of all," he noted, "HAPPINESS ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED.

Jon Krakauer

#7. At Al Jazeera, the first story I did was to sit down with a former Haitian dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, and grill him about crimes against humanity. Al Jazeera is giving me the opportunity to tell important stories and stories that I want to tell.

Soledad O'Brien

#8. Fearing the unknown within myself has kept me crouching in a corner. I look to see who I am and discover much that is worthy.

Maureen Brady

#9. Often times, people don't realize how much their childhood still affects them when they are an adult. Or other people don't realize the affect things still have on those they know. Other people might even say, "Get over it" or "Move on." But it's usually simply not that easy.

Lisa Bedrick

#10. I am empowered by self-knowledge, by ownership of my experiences, and by all aspects of myself.

Maureen Brady

#11. Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life

Lynette Gould

#12. Life, he says, doesn't have to be so bad all the time. We don't have to be anxious about everything. We can just be. We can get up, anticipate that the day will probably have a few good moments and a few bad ones, and then just deal with it. Take it all in and deal as best we can.

John Corey Whaley

#13. When I was in my 20s, I thought I knew who I was. And then as soon as I turned 30, I realized that person has bruises and bumps and dark parts. And you kind of go, well, that's it. I'd rather embrace it than force myself to change.

Sam Worthington