Quotes About Rape Survivors

#1. 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

#2. What we see happening with this Republican strategy is a willingness to threaten the very foundation of the world's greatest economic power. That is a very risky proposition.

Jay Carney

#3. The mind drives the body, which drives the genome.

Matt Ridley

#4. People may not realize the damage that they are doing by placing the blame on the victim ~ but that doesn't lessen the damage that they cause by doing it.

Darlene Ouimet

#5. The biggest gap there is in America is not economic; the gap is spiritual and cultural.

Mike Huckabee

#6. the gravity of wound to fist

Karen Russell

#7. 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

#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. I may be stumbling through these steps, but at least I'm stumbling forward.

Emery Lord

#10. And, to all married men, be this a caution, Which they should duly tender as their life, Neither to doat too much, nor doubt a wife.

Philip Massinger

#11. ... religious traditions build up meaning only over time and in a communal context. They can't be purchased like a burger or a pair of shoes.

Kathleen Norris

#12. Always know there are friends somewhere rooting for you. There are people you don't know, always praying for you and lifting you before God. - Jenee, from "To the Survivors".

Robert Uttaro

#13. Our Christian faith - and correlatively, our account of apologetics - is tainted by modernism when we fail to appreciate the effects of sin on reason. When this is ignored, we adopt an Enlightenment optimism about the role of a supposedly neutral reason in the recognition of truth.

James K.A. Smith

#14. Her nakedness was not vulnerability, but armour.

Robin Hobb

#15. You see, fears will arise that prevent you from doing as He asks - proclaiming the gospel, reaching out to those in need, and submitting to His will. But the fear of the Lord - your respect for Him - should motivate you to obey Him anyway.

Charles F. Stanley

#16. We spend so much of our passion on our first love. I'm not convinced that it - passion - is one of those things that you have an endless amount of - like happiness or sadness. I could be happy all day. I could be sad all day. But I'm not so sure I'll ever love like that again.

Laura Miller

#17. Over half a million women are raped in this country every year, and only a fraction of them report it because they're too ashamed. It's a really screwed up world, but its not your fault, and what happened to you, it doesn't make you the monster.

Mariska Hargitay

#18. The measure of a person's disposition is this: how far is he from what he understands to what he does, how great is the distance between his understanding and his actions.

Soren Kierkegaard

#19. If you catch them at 12 years old, which they are working very aggressively to do and you tell those children that if you have an attraction towards someone of the same gender, that means you're gay and because you're gay you need to come with us.

Scott Lively

#20. Well, I'm not involved in polemics. I never wanted to have any position of power, and I don't have it.

Kaija Saariaho

#21. agrarian societies don't repel interstellar invaders.

S.H. Jucha

#22. If I want to build wealth to transfer to the next generation, I can let it grow on a tax-free basis.

Arthur Nersesian