Quotes About Surviving Abuse

#1. The thing I always wanted to say is that surviving abuse sucks. But it's also a choose-your-own-adventure story.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

#2. You have two choices in life: Live the life you want or live the life of acceptance.

Shannon L. Alder

#3. Even as the nannies came into heat - one could tell because they grew louder than roosters and started to sexually assault the water barrels - I

Erin Bow

#4. I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to. My husband is a really fantastic cook. His mother is Italian and if you walk into our house, we assume you're starving.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#5. No one does anything inappropriate, given their model of the world.

Neale Donald Walsch

#6. Scars prove that you're still here. That you can move on. Maybe missing a chunk of yourself, but here, goddamn it, surviving.

Ash Parsons

#7. I believe in giving back.

Laura San Giacomo

#8. Don't play his game. Play yours.

Rachel Caine

#9. I just want him to shut up and stop talking like this. I just want him to get up and follow me out of here. I just want to be back at Watford in our room, knowing he's there, and that he isn't hurting anyone, and no one is hurting him.

Rainbow Rowell

#10. Joe Walsh is a great guy and and an unbelievable talent, I'd like to work with him again someday.

Lita Ford

#11. ...they would say 'he said this, he did that', but they would never say 'she said this, she did that'. So I would say, they are sick, and I am well. Pardon me.

Charles Bukowski

#12. Feel sorry for anyone who thinks what they think is right should be some universal law

Huntley Fitzpatrick

#13. Children in the abstract, had never appealed to me. They seemed to be loud creatures, often dripping some form of goo.

Stephenie Meyer

#14. I don't see all the movies that come out.

Ray Walston