Abuse Survivor Quotes
Collection of top 34 famous quotes about Abuse Survivor
Abuse Survivor Quotes & Sayings
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Incest is almost always a devastating experience for
the victim. — Susan Forward
the victim. — Susan Forward
Most of our informants [incest survivors] remembered their mothers as weak and powerless, finding their only dignity in martyrdom.
— Judith Lewis Herman
It's been so long, I don't remember what okay feels like.
— Kayla Krantz
I was becoming a product of society, a hardened juvenile! Now I was becoming rebellious and hateful.
— Stephen Richards
It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man.
— Alice Walker
I dived out of the office and I was gone ... hitting these fields like a mad March hare. This wasn't Born Free, it was RUN FREE!
— Stephen Richards
I can sit in denial of my life because in looking around I see how lucky I am to have survived it.
— K. Farrell St. Germain
You might think the Bangkok Hilton (the nickname of a fictional prison in Bangkok) was tough, well that was paradise compared to this place!
— Stephen Richards
I'm a survivor. And I say this with so much pride I could burst into a million tiny pieces at your feet.
— Trish Kaye Lleone
As part of the healing process, change your perception of yourself from "victim" to that of "advocate" and "survivor.
— Don Easton
Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life
— Lynette Gould
I was survivor of childhood sexual abuse in therapy for dissociated trauma memories.
— Jeanne McElvaney
Closeness was the promise of suffering and pain
— Alice Jamieson
I look upon the gift of my life as a wondrous journey.
— Maureen Brady
Bound by Blood, Marked by the Dragonfly.
— Lisa Akers
Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I have been through. I said it's because no matter what, I am a survivor NOT a victim.
— Patricia Buckley
While a psychiatric diagnosis can serve a purpose in treatment plans, it should not become a tool to discredit a person's disclosure of abuse.
— Lee Ann Hoff
Miriam is upset. Her voice is stretched and I can't look at her. Perhaps they beat something out of her she didn't get back.
— Anna Funder
I value and honor the way that my suffering brings me to further search and surrender.
— Maureen Brady
If we are taken all together, we might muster some courage, but from the previous evidence it is likely that we will be taken separately.
— Edna O'Brien
I have to find a place to hide
An island in the sea
Surrounded by a racing tide
Where I can live with me — Laurie Matthew
An island in the sea
Surrounded by a racing tide
Where I can live with me — Laurie Matthew
I remember the pain I felt, and wonder why a man who was such an accomplished liar had to tell the truth that day.
— Toni Maguire
You are NOT an abuse survivor or victim. Leave your labels elsewhere because they are no longer serving you.
— Miya Yamanouchi
Her wounds brought her a great source of power because they lived in the same place as her heart.
— Shannon L. Alder
Just as much as the media portray child sexual exploitation as being a 'hidden' crime, then that is no less of a case with child physical abuse.
— Stephen Richards
...there is a particular focus of the problem faced only by men. It arises from our culture providing no room for a man as victim.
— Mike Lew
I sometimes continue to see myself in split ways; it causes me trouble and contributes to a lack of satisfaction with myself.
— Maureen Brady
No matter what tight corner I was in, I was capable of getting myself out of it ... not God!
— Stephen Richards
I'm not a victim. I'm not a survivor. I'm a fighter.
— JenniferElizabeth Austin
The bottom line was that I was in an abusive relationship.
— Shannon Celebi