Family Abuse Incest Quotes

#1. This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra. The Americans are the people who are under siege.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#2. Unfortunately, the people I end up seeing the least are my girlfriends.

Jennifer Grey

#3. Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it.

Emile Chartier

#4. Soon all of this shite-hole will know I am the Greatest Swordsman in the world. You, my friend, will sadly not live to see that day. Such is the fate of stepping-stones.

Michael R. Fletcher

#5. I have to say that in this particular cow that we're dealing with, those parts of the cow were removed, and so we don't think there's any risk or very negligible risk to human health with this particular incident.

Ann Veneman

#6. It really is better to be lucky than to be good.

Jeff Lindsay

#7. Sexual abuse of children now presents society with the ultimate crisis of patriarchy, when children refuse to protect their fathers by keeping secrets.

Beatrix Campbell

#8. In general, the more dysfunctional the family the more inappropriate their response to disclosure. Never expect a sane response from an insane system.

Renee Fredrickson

#9. Women need total life support services for the mother as she and the family move through the crisis following disclosure.

Janis Tyler Johnson

#10. There is only one Church, and the responsibility for missionary work is universal. 'Every member a missionary.'

James E. Faust

#11. The entrance into the family of an outside professional with legal authority is always a crisis-ridden event, but it may be the best insurance that the incest will not continue.

Janis Tyler Johnson

#12. If you're more concerned about our reputation than about me, then I'll just withdraw and not have a family anymore. p.32

Gregory R. Reid

#13. Colossal rigidity, whether in dinosaurs or dictatorships, has a very poor record of evolutionary survival.

Carl R. Rogers

#14. Like I am Alice in the Wonderland and have gotten too big for the room.

Lauren Oliver

#15. The child who attends school does not remember the abuse that happens at home or via the family; those memories are held in another part of the child's mind. The child does not even remember abuse that happened the preceding night.

Alison Miller

#16. We must regard Sarah Palin as the Carmella Soprano of the GOP
an enabling wife of organized crime, who sees, hears and speaks no evil of the boys in her old-boy network for whom she does this ideological lap dance.

Cintra Wilson

#17. Or: "The ideal student values knowledge for its own sake, as well as for its instrumental uses. He or she hopes to make a contribution to society at large.

Carol S. Dweck

#18. Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me against cynicism and despair.

Helen Keller

#19. 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

#20. When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justification for the choice of a mixture. There is no justification ever for choosing any part of what you know to be evil.

Ayn Rand

#21. There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.

Ali Smith

#22. What I believe in is love your neighbor as yourself and don't call him stupid because they don't agree with you politically.

Bill Maher

#23. My goal in going public was not to put my extended family to shame, or to get back at Brian for abusing my sister and me; rather, my mission was to give a face and voice to an epidemic that society stays hushed about.

Erin Merryn

#24. 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

#25. Though all the daughters eventually succeeded in escaping from their families, they felt, even at this time of the interview (while in their 20s and 30s) that they would never be safe with their fathers, and that they would have to defend themselves as long as their fathers lived.

Judith Lewis Herman