Quotes About Child Abuse Survivors

#1. When we first begin to take power more directly, after long having kept our relationship to it underground...it is natural that we experience anxiety, even guilt, at putting ourselves first. These feeling let us know we are taking action; they do not need to stop us.

Maureen Brady

#2. Even in death, her mother was winning.

Noorilhuda

#3. It is dangerous to use our own ability to access non-traumatic memories as a standard against which we judge a trauma victim's response.

David Yeung

#4. ...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

#5. Incest is almost always a devastating experience for
the victim.

Susan Forward

#6. I am proud to be part of the Toys for Tots program for a second year. In addition to giving kids the chance to design a special The UPS Store/Toys for Tots car, this contest is a great way for children to learn about the importance of charitable giving.

Dale Jarrett

#7. Most of our informants [incest survivors] remembered their mothers as weak and powerless, finding their only dignity in martyrdom.

Judith Lewis Herman

#8. Simon leveled the gun at Will again. 'Now,' he said casually, 'someone's gonna die here in the next minute.'
On the other side of the two-way mirror, Sammy took aim.
'That's exactly right,' she whispered.

Jenna Brooks

#9. Healing isn't just about pain. It's about learning to love yourself. As you move from feeling like a victim to being a proud survivor, you will have glimmers of hope, pride and satisfaction. Those are natural by-products of healing.

Ellen Bass

#10. I thought when the abuse stopped I could move on with my life. Instead I am still running from Brian. The only difference is now I am running from him in my dreams.

Erin Merryn

#11. Jesus soon is coming,
and Christmas too,
Good reason for being happy,
Helping people to do.

Miguel El Portugues

#12. Children who feel unloved and unprotected are like a half-filled cup. They become incapable of 'filling up' because they have come to believe they are unworthy of love. They try to please others, give to others, and care for others in a desperate hope that they may make themselves worthy.

Beverly Engel

#13. What are you - Secret Service?'
'If I were, I wouldn't admit it.'
'And you're not admitting it, I notice.

Robert Goddard

#14. Closeness was the promise of suffering and pain

Alice Jamieson

#15. During sexual abuse, children feel and incorporate the rage, pain, shame, and sense of perversion that the perpetrator is projecting. They take these feelings into the very core of themselves, and they are badly traumatized by the emotions surrounding the assault, as well as by the assault itself.

Renee Fredrickson

#16. I sometimes continue to see myself in split ways; it causes me trouble and contributes to a lack of satisfaction with myself.

Maureen Brady

#17. One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.

Stefan Molyneux

#18. It is always a mistake to underestimate how long it takes for mankind to understand the traumas it has suffered, especially the self-inflicted ones.

A.C. Grayling

#19. I am filled with truth at my center where I once held shame.

Maureen Brady

#20. Every now and then there's a small scream from the part that thinks it's still alive. It will stop soon.

Stephen King

#21. All people cross the line from childhood to adulthood with a secondhand opinion of who they are. Without any questioning, we take as truth whatever our parents and other influentials have said about us during our childhood, whether these messages are communicated verbally, physically, or silently.

Heyward Bruce Ewart III

#22. I look upon the gift of my life as a wondrous journey.

Maureen Brady

#23. 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

#24. What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God.

Mother Teresa

#25. The capacity for dissociation enables the young child to exercise their innate life-sustaining need for attachment in spite of the fact that principal attachment figures are also principal abusers.

Warwick Middleton

#26. Many survivors insist they're not courageous: 'If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.' 'If I were courageous, I wouldn't be scared'... Most of us have it mixed up. You don't start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.

Laura Davis

#27. My main interest is just to work with people who have beautiful, interesting, emotive voices; I'm not too concerned whether someone is famous.

Moby

#28. No matter how you look, we all hurt the same, cry the same, and feel joy the same.

Paula Patton

#29. One Decision Makes All the Difference

Kimesha Coleman

#30. By opening the door to my life, it is my hope and mission to shed light on the hidden wounds of abuse, to end the stigma and shame associated with abuse, and to show survivors true courage, strength, inspiration, and determination.

Erin Merryn

#31. Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.

Alfred North Whitehead

#32. After a victim is made to participate in an act of evil, the people in charge put a lot of energy into convincing the child or adult that he or she is evil and a perpetrator rather than a victim.p324

Alison Miller

#33. It's all interrelated, these destructive things I do. I latch on to people, like I'm collecting them. I'm always looking for a hero, you know?

Jenna Brooks

#34. Maternal absence, in one form or another, is always found in the background of the incest romance. Womens literature on incest generally treats the theme of maternal absence tragically. Mens literature trivializes it or treats it comically. And clinical literature tends to treat it judgmentally.

Judith Lewis Herman