Quotes About Emotional Child Abuse

#1. Children will invest as much energy as is needed to ensure the preservation of family harmony, even if it means sacrificing themselves to do so by developing psychological disorders. - Joel Covitz Emotional Child Abuse

John Bradshaw

#2. [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

#3. 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

#4. Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank
but that's not the same thing.

Joseph Conrad

#5. Tender Ember
... Barred and branded
to be forever unloved
I was a tender ember
seeking solace from above ...

Muse

#6. Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.

Slobodan Milosevic

#7. The monarchy is a part of the state. It exists to serve the people.

Heather Brooke

#8. Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.

Ben Stein

#9. Parental Alienation is an emotional act of violence that is aimed at an adult, but critically wounds a child.

Steve Maraboli

#10. As a writer, you should have a sticky soul; the act of continually taking things in should be as much a part of you as your hair color.

Elizabeth Berg

#11. We play different people - our art form is performance art - so unless you're playing the same type of person, I don't know if you could improve or make it worse.

Regina King

#12. Hitler admired Stalin, quite properly seeing himself as a mere infant in crime compared to his great exemplar.

Doris Lessing

#13. 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

#14. In communist Russia, their major organ was Pravda, which means "truth." The Russians knew how to read between the lines. They didn't take their literature literally.

Raymond Pettibon

#15. The more a child is abused, the more the child uses his abilities to anticipate, manage, prevent, dismantle, and challenge the abusing ways of his parents.

Steven Franssen

#16. We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up elicits an emotional response that the story itself very well may not earn. Energy generated by the fiction itself is likely to produce more light.

Anthony Marra