Quotes About Abusive Father

#1. My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.

Missy Elliott

#2. I grew up with an extremely abusive father. As a mother, I wanted to protect my own children from exposure to violence. When I found out one of my daughters was in an abusive relationship, it broke my heart. Finally, she left him ?- but only after his abuse started spreading to the children.

Ginny Brown-Waite

#3. Finally coming to terms with Fathers Day. I blow as a Dad. I get it. No, I'm not an evil, abusive Father, it's just that while all my intentions and thoughts have been out of love for my kids, my actions and behaviour never measured up.

Geoffrey Hill

#4. All human beings are inherently good, so when someone goes off the rails, there must be some mitigating factor - he was bullied, was a loner, had an abusive father, or a domineering mother, etc.

Ray Comfort

#5. Because the child does not have the power to withhold consent, she does not have the power to grant it.

Judith Lewis Herman

#6. My thoughts turned back to my parents and their apparent penchant for being big ol' liars.

Rachel Hawkins

#7. But we can't alibi all our ills by just knocking the old banker. First he loaned the money, then the people all at once wanted it back, and he didn't have it. Now he's got it again, and is afraid to loan it, so the poor devil don't know what to do.

Will Rogers

#8. I can't imagine laying a finger on my kids. I go the other way and probably because my father was so abusive.

Billy Bob Thornton

#9. He pitches better when he's mad, so I try to make him that way.

Jorge Posada

#10. I tend to attack the challenges that are right in front of me, the ones that I have today.

Mike Tomlin

#11. We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships.

Gale Norton

#12. 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

#13. It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth.

Alan Rudolph

#14. I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

Janice Dickinson

#15. i can't tell if my mother is
terrified or in love with
my father it all
looks the same

i flinch when you touch me
i fear it is him

Rupi Kaur

#16. In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner.

Richard John Neuhaus

#17. Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats or parrots that the animals end up in cages only inches bigger than their own bodies. For life.

Ingrid Newkirk

#18. My friends sometimes used to ignore me completely, and that would really upset me badly.

Kate Bush

#19. I'm only being cute here. I don't really mean it. I just wanted to make you smile.

Stephen Chbosky

#20. My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

S.E. Hinton

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

Janis Tyler Johnson

#22. I want to say that nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification to do that. I didn't just make it up. A lot of things were true and abusive and horrible things that happened to me that my father did.

Roseanne Barr

#23. As I started college, I started to build software products that I could sell to people over the Web.

Jon Oringer

#24. I don't find the life in Hollywood all that meaningful or inspiring.

Michael Sheen

#25. As long as fathers rule but do not nurture, as long as mothers nurture but do not rule, the conditions favoring the development of father-daughter incest will prevail.

Judith Lewis Herman

#26. He was a bad, bad bastard. He abused the privilege of being a cunt, as my old Da would say.' I smiled, picturing the cozy fireside scene of young son on father's knee being inducted into the world of abusive epithets.

Craig Russell

#27. But for a mother who was submissive to the degree my mother was, it was OK to kill girls. For a father like mine, it was normal to chop off his daughters hair with sheep shears, and to beat her with a belt or a cane or tie her up in the stable all night with the cows.

Souad

#28. After my father died when I was seven and my mother entered into an abusive relationship, I shuffled between houses - staying with friends, families from church, and relying on the kindness of teachers and people throughout my community to help me grow up essentially without parents.

Ronnie Musgrove

#29. The mission that unites all of the programs of the Teach For All global network is that of cultivating the leadership capacity critical to ultimately ensuring educational opportunity for all.

Wendy Kopp

#30. The Milkoviches are a much more extreme, much darker version of what the Gallaghers could be. The Gallaghers don't have a violent, sexually abusive, bigoted gangster for a father.

Noel Fisher

#31. If I could have somehow been the kind of artist who could crank out two or three issues a year, that's different. That's sort of what it's all about, to get this thing out so that there's some kind of continuity. But to do a comic book every year or two was just so anti-climactic.

Daniel Clowes

#32. [The incestuous father...] may be unconsciously seeking revenge against either his wife or his mother for what he considers a variety of emotional crimes against him.

Susan Forward

#33. I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

#34. 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