Quotes About Childhood Sexual Abuse

#1. You invite a time in the near future when you are no longer building your life on the unknown influences of your childhood sexual abuse.

Jeanne McElvaney

#2. It feels as if childhood sexual abuse or domestic abuse of women in the home has increased but actually if you ask women of 60 or 70 years old, the incidence is about the same. We just didn't know it.

Gloria Steinem

#3. I was survivor of childhood sexual abuse in therapy for dissociated trauma memories.

Jeanne McElvaney

#4. 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

#5. You don't always need all of the bells and the whistles. I learned in my life, throughout my journey, that I'm enough. I don't need all of the extras. I just live my truth, and as long as I do that, I feel like I'll be good in whatever circumstance.

V. Bozeman

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

Maureen Brady

#7. Nirvikalpa Samadhi means that you've gone off the board; you've gone off the map. There is no way to describe it. You have attained liberation and are no longer bound by the cycle of existence. You just are, and yet you're not, at the same time.

Frederick Lenz

#8. Sometimes I hesitate to use the term sexual abuse. It conjures up worst-case scenarios in our minds, and we think, "That will never happen to my kids." And we never begin the conversation regarding sexual abuse with our children. But one violation left in secret can cause significant pain.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

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

Lynette Gould

#10. When we talk with our children about sexual abuse, we are not only taking a proactive step toward protecting them, we are building our relationship with them
grounded in honesty and trust. It's a win-win situation.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#11. You have to be quiet," I said. "We don't want to wake up the ladies. I don't think I want 'em to see me all drunk like this."

"It's not really me we have to worry about, Dino."

"Shit, am I too loud?"

"Yes. Shut up.

Elle Parker

#12. Don't put your child at risk. Limit unsupervised one-on-one time between your child & another adult or another child.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#13. ...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

#14. It's better to burn out than to fade away.

Kurt Cobain

#15. Some of your childhood traumas may be remembered with incredible clarity, while others are so frightening or incomprehensible that your conscious mind buries the memory in your unconscious.

Renee Fredrickson

#16. And Ana remembered her father's words, Say no! Run! Tell me!

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#17. What is [the role of money] in the search for meaning? Is our relationship to it one of the chief factors that keeps us in our prison, or could it also be a tool for breaking out, for awakening to a life filled with intensity of purpose?

Jacob Needleman

#18. One of the things that has happened is that our drug laws have been institutionalized now. If you want to say that somebody's a bad person in a movie or in a television show or something about that, you say they sell drugs or they use drugs.

Carl Hart

#19. I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, and I told my dad. My father made three important choices that day: He listened to me, he believed me, and he took action. I was one of the fortunate ones
I had a childhood.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#20. They never see what they're too much of a hurry to look for

Norton Juster

#21. Many deeply hidden memories have come flooding back. The important message here though is that it is possible to heal and survive. Everyone has survived their own kind of emotional or mental trauma. We all have our inner fears and misreplaced feelings of guilt.

Lynette Gould

#22. The American Jewish Committee has pioneered the German-Jewish-American dialogue.

Klaus Kinkel

#23. If someone would have talked in school about safe touch and unsafe touch, I believe I would have spoken up as a child and not been victimized over and over again for years, but that day never came, which is why my mission now is to protect children from the childhood I could not be protected from.

Erin Merryn

#24. If originally it was not good for a man to be alone, it is much worse for a sick man to be so; he thinks too much of his distemper, and magnifies it.

Lord Chesterfield

#25. Imagine, pretend, and play so you can become anyone you want to be. You don't need to be afraid.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#26. The initial trauma of a young child may go underground but it will return to haunt us.

James Garbarino

#27. Hiding my pain and acting strong, afraid to cry and show my tears, I struggle with all this years later.

Erin Merryn

#28. Give a cold shoulder to cold callers. Never invest in anything based on a phone call from someone you don't know or whose office is a post office box.

Nancy Dunnan

#29. Build a bridge over shame by teaching kids about sexual abuse. Give them a chance to run to us should they encounter it. Be their hero.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#30. 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

#31. Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?

Neil Gaiman

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

Niki Krauss

#33. Denial is commonly found among persons with dissociative disorders. My favorite quotation from such a client is, "We are not multiple, we made it all up." I have heard this from several different clients. When I hear it, I politely inquire, "And who is we?

Alison Miller

#34. I'm always trying to make movies. It's what I love to do more than anything. I love to write and direct.

Frank Whaley

#35. Behind every successful child is an adult who believed in him.

Rick Warren

#36. Not only do I believe children can be reliable in sexual abuse cases, I believe the vast majority of them are reliable in those cases.
Nightline: When to believe a child's word (1996)

Stephen J. Ceci

#37. What most people perceive as energy is really strength of spirit. It comes from the joy of knowing God, loving Him, and being loved by Him.

Kathie Lee Gifford

#38. I've done romantic comedy, and I don't get to flex that muscle often.

Hill Harper