Top 84 Quotes About Incest
#1. No, not in a creepy way. I am anti-incest. It says so on my bumper sticker.
Laurel Ulen Curtis
#2. Give up the human, and I'll call them off," Reseph called out.
"Fuck you."
"Incest, brother?" He shrugged. "Well, hell, I've tried everything else since my Seal broke ...
Larissa Ione
#3. If the war against drugs is lost, then so are the wars against theft, speeding, incest, fraud, rape, murder, arson, and illegal parking. Few, if any, such wars are winnable. So let us all do anything we choose.
Theodore Dalrymple
#4. Cages everywhere I went. I was no better off in Saxonia, excepting only for the threat of vigorous, royal incest. Perhaps this also means that a princess is only a particularly desirable kind of monstrous creature--a lure that must be kept in a box at all times.
J.M. McDermott
#5. The vast majority of incest begins years before the earliest conceivable age of consent. p4
Judith Lewis Herman
#6. After a while, marriage is a sibling relationship
marked by occasional, and rather regrettable, episodes of incest.
Martin Amis
#7. The entrance into the family of an outside professional with legal authority is always a crisis-ridden event, but it may be the best insurance that the incest will not continue.
Janis Tyler Johnson
#8. Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life
Lynette Gould
#9. 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
#10. Well, the man who first translated the bible into English was burned at the stake, and they've been at it ever since. Must be all that adultery, murder and incest. But not to worry. It's back on the shelves.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#11. Gay men! And it's incest! With the same face!
Bisco Hatori
#12. I am pro-life, I believe in exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. That's my position, take it or leave it.
Chris Christie
#13. The horror of incest is not in the sexual act. but in the exploitation of children and the corruption of parental love. p4
Judith Lewis Herman
#14. Incest is almost always a devastating experience for
the victim.
Susan Forward
#15. Leviticus 18 doesn't tell us everything we need to know about sex, but it gives us the basic rules: incest is bad (vv. 6-27); taking a rival wife is bad (v 18) ... adultery is bad (v 20); killing our children is bad (v 21); homosexuality activity is bad (v 22); and bestiality is bad (v 23).
Kevin DeYoung
#16. Most of our informants [incest survivors] remembered their mothers as weak and powerless, finding their only dignity in martyrdom.
Judith Lewis Herman
#17. Try everything once, except folk dancing and incest.
Thomas Beecham
#19. Just one more line, please. I'll do anything. And I mean anything."
"Good, we've got him hooked," said Ryan. "It won't be long now before he's on heroin."
Josie added, "Then it's just slavery, pedophilia, and murder."
"Don't forget incest," said Flora.
Aiden Shaw
#20. When it came to hatred, Brodd Tenways had a bottomless supply. He was one of those bastards who can't even breathe quietly, ugly as incest and always delighted to push it in your face, leering from the shadows like the village pervert at a passing milkmaid.
Joe Abercrombie
#21. As recently as 1975, a basic American psychiatry textbook estimated that the frequency of all forms of incest as one case per million. [James Henderson, "Incest", in A. M. Freedman, H.I. Kaplan and B.J. Sadock, eds., Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 2nd ed. 1975 p. 1532.]
Judith Lewis Herman
#22. She had all the best things wrong with her - incest, insanity, drug addiction, bulimia, alopecia: you name it. All the perfect stuff for a memoir. She's so lucky.
Peter Cameron
#23. The Bible talks about bestiality even less than it talks about homosexuality, but that doesn't make bestiality an insignificant issue - or incest or child abuse or fifty other sins the Bible barely addresses.
Kevin DeYoung
#24. I don't believe that Jesus would approve abortion except in the case of incest, rape or the mother's life in danger. But I had to enforce the Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade so I tried to do everything I could to minimize the need for abortions.
Jimmy Carter
#25. In the context of Lawrence's rejection of the Freudian notion of incest and the close identification between author and character, Sons and Lovers becomes an exercise in deliberate ambiguity.
John E. Stoll
#26. I think it was Harry Walpole who remarked, In this life one should try everything once except incest and country dancing.
Stephen Fry
#27. ...Incest is rape by extortion. Thus the child's very childhood becomes a weapon used to control her.
E. Sue Blume
#28. No more money, no more fancy dress
This other Kingdom seems by far the best until its other jaw reveals incest & loose obedience to a vegetable law
I will not go
Prefer a Feast of Friends
To the Giant family
Jim Morrison
#29. It is an inside joke of history that all its most exciting adventures inevitably end their careers as homework. Beheadings, rebellions, thousand-year wars, incest on the royal throne, electricity, art, opera, dogs in outer space.
B.J. Novak
#30. Oh my God, I'm not letting you out of this bed until you are thoroughly debouched. Incest has never looked so fucking good before.
Annie George
#31. Incest, rape and abuse is rampant everywhere, even in our churches, but society is silent. It is a silent epidemic. One in three women will experience a sexual assault in her lifetime and one in six males, yet we don't speak of it, even in our churches!
Diane Chamberlain
#32. Try everything once. Except incest and folk dancing.' Sir Thomas Beecham
Richard Branson
#33. Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our
insanity. 'Patriotism' is its cult ... Just as love for one
individual which excludes the love for others is not love,
love for one's country which is not part of one's love
for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.
Erich Fromm
#34. A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.
Arnold Bax
#35. You're both mother fuckers. She was half asleep. Her voice was matter-of-fact as if referring to actual incest.
William S. Burroughs
#36. I estimate the number [of incest victims] to be somewhere between ten and twenty million Americans...
Susan Forward
#37. I got Oedipus off the incest charge
technicality, of course
he didn't know it was his mother at the time.
Jasper Fforde
#38. It sounds not only disagreeable but also paradoxical, yet it must nevertheless be said that anyone who is to be really free and happy in love must have surmounted his respect for women and have come to terms with the idea of incest with his mother or sister.
Sigmund Freud
#39. He stared at me in complete puzzlement, And while I'm committing incest for you is there anything else you'd like? Maybe a side-order of bestiality?
Candice Raquel Lee
#40. Nor was there a Greek word for "incest." The Ptolemies carried the practice to an extreme. Of the fifteen or so family marriages, at least ten were full brother-sister unions.
Stacy Schiff
#41. Apart from religious ceremonies, triduums, novenas, gardening, harvesting, vintaging, whippings, slavery, incest, fires, hangings, invasion, sacking, rape and pestilence, we have had no experience. What can a poor nun know of the world?
Italo Calvino
#42. 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
#43. Doc begs me for the wires to fix the pump.
We should at least keep putting the hormones in the water," he insists, "so that they don't start mating with relatives."
"Most people don't want to commit incest," I say dryly.
Beth Revis
#44. INCEST, n. In many parts of the Bible Belt, the most popular form of dating
Charles Bufe
#45. Languages have complicated family trees, you know - mixed marriages, stepchildren, even bastards. There are countless scandals in the history of languages, many murders, much incest.
Lauren Kate
#47. Or in my grandparents's case, the circling worked like this: as they paced around the deck the first time, Lefty and Desdemona were still brother and sister. The second time, the were bride and bridegroom. And the third, they were husband and wife.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#48. The child who attends school does not remember the abuse that happens at home or via the family; those memories are held in another part of the child's mind. The child does not even remember abuse that happened the preceding night.
Alison Miller
#49. She looked at her hand: Just some hand, holding a cheap pen. Some girls' hand. She had nothing to do with that hand. Let that hand do whatever it wanted to.
Cynthia Voigt
#50. If you're more concerned about our reputation than about me, then I'll just withdraw and not have a family anymore. p.32
Gregory R. Reid
#51. I choose to let positive attitudes lighten my being today.
Maureen Brady
#52. Women need total life support services for the mother as she and the family move through the crisis following disclosure.
Janis Tyler Johnson
#53. She couldn't get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn't get away.
Cynthia Voigt
#54. Because the child does not have the power to withhold consent, she does not have the power to grant it.
Judith Lewis Herman
#55. In general, the more dysfunctional the family the more inappropriate their response to disclosure. Never expect a sane response from an insane system.
Renee Fredrickson
#56. In some very rare cases, an opposite-sex pair was born, and they always mated one another. Disturbing as it might sound, when it did happen, the offspring were invariably gifted. Sera and Trace's sons were noted psych-scientists.
Belinda McBride
#57. Don't you understand brother? I want to find a love ... that will free me from this love ...
Neil Jordan
#58. Without realizing it, I fought to keep my two worlds separated. Without ever knowing why, I made sure, whenever possible that nothing passed between the compartmentalization I had created between the day child and the night child.
p26
Marilyn Van Derbur
#59. Become your own soulmate. Then you'll always have someone watching your back, and you'll always have someone who loves you.
Rebecca O'Donnell
#60. 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
#61. Because the perpetrators typically have little understanding as to why they are sexually assaulting children, they usually are unable to stop after the first assault. Abusive behavior continues until a crisis of some kind prevents further abuse.
Tony Martens
#62. What is it you do for your family? Aside from trying to put it in your sister, I mean?
Greg Rucka
#63. I had heard the wind from the mountains calling me last night, telling me it was my time to go, and I woke up, knowing what to do.
V.C. Andrews
#64. I felt like an animal, and animals don't know sin, do they?
Jess C. Scott
#65. To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss.
Chris Womersley
#66. 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
#67. Mind Your Language in the Presence of Patriachs
Q. When is rape not rape?
A. When it is your father or stepfather.
S. Caroline Taylor
#68. You may experience waves of disbelief after each memory you retrieve. Whether as a phase or waves, the disbelief is usually accompanied by massive self-hate and guilt. 'How can I even think such a thing? I must really be warped,' you tell yourself.
Renee Fredrickson
#69. On top of the abuse and neglect, denial heaps more hurt upon the child by requiring the child to alienate herself from reality and her own experience. In troubled families, abuse and neglect are permitted; it's the talking about them that is forbidden.
Marcia Sirota
#70. My goal in going public was not to put my extended family to shame, or to get back at Brian for abusing my sister and me; rather, my mission was to give a face and voice to an epidemic that society stays hushed about.
Erin Merryn
#71. [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
#73. After all, the girl actually had faith in something, which was more than most people had in these dark times. It was wrong to destroy it.
Chris Womersley
#75. The sun was hot and bright. A day for fishing, for swimming, for playing tennis and having fun, and they put my Christopher in the ground.
V.C. Andrews
#77. 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
#78. And thank you for saying all of that, and for loving me, for you haven't gone unloved, or unadmired, yourself.
V.C. Andrews
#79. I value and honor the way that my suffering brings me to further search and surrender.
Maureen Brady
#80. When trauma involves intentional harm, such as in a crime or abuse, trust can totally collapse.
Dena Rosenbloom
#81. I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, hiding her true face from my gaze. "Pray for me, if you like," he told his cousin. "I forgotten all the words.
George R R Martin
#82. It is regarded as axiomatic that parents have more power then children. This is an inescapable biological fact; young children are completely dependent on their parents or other caring adults for survival.
Judith Lewis Herman
#83. I am afraid of him now. The one I love most in the world.
Neil Jordan
#84. One's child is always one's child no matter what age they might be. You worry when your child makes a noise, when he doesn't. It's a terrible kind of love. Terrible.
Chris Womersley
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