Sexual Shame Quotes

#1. I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

Alison Bechdel

#2. Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#3. There is no shame in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is on the aggressor.

Angelina Jolie

#4. Rather than being able to have a healthy relationship with our own sexual imagination, we're driven into some dark corners by shame and embarrassment and guilt, and those dark corners breed all sorts of monsters.

Alan Moore

#5. My children, who don't know they play on a graveyard.

Suzanne Collins

#6. 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

#7. Ah yes, a great victory, this 'sport'. I am sure El Toro appreciates the applause

Jumping in the Puddles of Life

Loretta Livingstone

#8. People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

Oliver Goldsmith

#9. An engaging examination of a painful subject, with a focus on healing and forgiveness. - Kirkus Review

Robert Uttaro

#10. Society says "Don't talk about sex, just do it

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#11. God has given you your child, that the sight of him, from time to time, might remind you of His goodness, and induce you to praise Him with filial reverence.

Christian Scriver

#12. I suppose there are actors who are worried about their public image. But I've never had any trouble playing unpleasant characters. It is only a part. Which is why you do it -because you are interested in exploring something you never could or would be.

Aidan Gillen

#13. But no matter how much evil I see, I think it's important for everyone to understand that there is much more light than darkness.

Robert Uttaro

#14. They say men have a sexual thought every 20 seconds. The other 19 are shame.

Greg Fitzsimmons

#15. We hope we are moving toward a world where sexual orientation is not an issue, because we hate the idea of a gay ghetto. I think that it's a real shame that people become restricted by their sexuality or define their whole lives by their sexuality.

Neil Tennant

#16. During sexual abuse, children feel and incorporate the rage, pain, shame, and sense of perversion that the perpetrator is projecting. They take these feelings into the very core of themselves, and they are badly traumatized by the emotions surrounding the assault, as well as by the assault itself.

Renee Fredrickson

#17. Dare the difference. That we like. "You have to be savvy about it," Lagarde allows, "but you also, in a sense, have to be confident about the difference.

Katty Kay

#18. One might pray and not be a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian and not pray.

R.C. Sproul

#19. The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#20. 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

#21. Some of the most effective segments are interviews with various staff members, including Aila, who works for the center's legal department. She explains the difficulties of rape prosecution, concluding that "only the survivor" can truly define justice. - Kirkus Review

Robert Uttaro

#22. I can't get myself to say what happened next. I cannot cope with even thinking about this let alone living with it."
"It is so degrading and I try to forget, it hurts so much because she is my mother."
- Graham talks about being sexually abused by his mother

Carolyn Ainscough

#23. Sex is too sweet to speak about, you must only do it

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#24. There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#25. The abuser's desire to abuse is not created by the child - it is there before the child appears

Carolyn Ainscough

#26. I'm telling you, every film I've ever made has been hated by the U.K. critics.

James Gray

#27. As if all that weren't enough, factor in the whole tedious millenial saga of female virtue, modesty, shame, repression, male ineptitude ... in short, a cruel combo of anatomical inheritance and sexual inhibition for the gal set; a nature-culture one-two punch, right to the female pleasure principle.

Laura Kipnis

#28. We are so used to our own history, we do not see it as remarkable or out of the ordinary, whereas others might see it as horrendous. Further, we tend to minimize that which we feel shameful about.

Patrick J. Carnes

#29. I am filled with truth at my center where I once held shame.

Maureen Brady

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. Abuse is a parasite that feeds off hate and shame, growing in size and strength with silence.

Nikki Sex

#33. I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.

Simon Van Booy

#34. I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother's ability and energy.

Betty Friedan