I Am A Survivor Not A Victim Quotes

#1. I have truly moved beyond my victimization. I do not think of myself as a victim. I don't think of myself as a survivor. I think of myself as someone who through forgiveness has healed her soul and body and moved on to help other people.

Stephanie Davis

#2. And the most important lesson I learned is that I'm not a victim - I'm a survivor.

Elle Kennedy

#3. Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I have been through. I said it's because no matter what, I am a survivor NOT a victim.

Patricia Buckley

#4. You broke the chain, Luna. Of all his victims, you were the only one that ever walked away and he hasn't forgotten.

Kayla Krantz

#5. 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

#6. As we move away from the old role in which we were helplessly entrapped as a victim, we make friends with the people who affirm us. Their enthusiasm about us mirrors the positive experience we are having.

Maureen Brady

#7. The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive.

Jodi Picoult

#8. I realized that what I feared the most had materialized, yet I survived.

Mary E. DeMuth

#9. Justice is for the victim. Vengeance is for the survivor.

Rachel Vincent

#10. Be a Survivor, Not a Victim

J.L. Higgs

#11. We have to stop arresting prostitutes and not arresting traffickers and pimps. It's absurd. We're arresting the victim or the survivor and not the oppressor.

Gloria Steinem

#12. ...there is a particular focus of the problem faced only by men. It arises from our culture providing no room for a man as victim.

Mike Lew

#13. I'm. Not. A. Victim!" I growled low and clearly pronounced each word. "No? Then what are you?" he asked, angered by my words. "I'm a survivor.

Amelia Hutchins

#14. You are NOT an abuse survivor or victim. Leave your labels elsewhere because they are no longer serving you.

Miya Yamanouchi

#15. Her wounds brought her a great source of power because they lived in the same place as her heart.

Shannon L. Alder

#16. I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.

Patsy Kensit

#17. I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor.

Nina Bawden