Abuse Survivors Quotes: top 50 famous quotes about Abuse Survivors

Abuse Survivors Quotes & Sayings

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Memories demand attention, and these memories will have teeth. — C. Kennedy

People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner. — Judith Lewis Herman

One Decision Makes All the Difference — Kimesha Coleman

Incest is almost always a devastating experience for
the victim. — Susan Forward

Sexual abuse injects poisonous lies into its victims' hearts and minds. "You're not worthy" is one of them. — Carolyn Byers Ruch

Deep connection is the antidote to madness. — Stefan Molyneux

Most of our informants [incest survivors] remembered their mothers as weak and powerless, finding their only dignity in martyrdom. — Judith Lewis Herman

Abuse is a parasite that feeds off hate and shame, growing in size and strength with silence. — Nikki Sex

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

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

Christy isn't a case, he's a person. — C. Kennedy

Often it isn't the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after. — S. Kelley Harrell

It is strange ... the reasons one feels he doesn't deserve things. — C. Kennedy

Shouldn't there be more distaste in our mouths for the abusers than for those who continue to love the abusers? — Colleen Hoover

I believe that we belittle survivors by assuming that they will fail. — Toni Bernhard

Closeness was the promise of suffering and pain — Alice Jamieson

Victims are members of society whose problems represent the memory of suffering, rage, and pain in a world that longs to forget. — Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

Don't try to be brave all at once. Take it in steps. — C. Kennedy

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

He doesn't hurt us anymore."
Of course he doesn't hurt you anymore, I think. You're not defenseless anymore. — Melanie O'Shea

Bound by Blood, Marked by the Dragonfly. — Lisa Akers

It is through that brokenness that we find courage and strength. It is what empowers us to do great things. — K.S. Ruff

I am small.
So are stars from a distance. It's all a matter of perspective. — C. Kennedy

Survivors of trauma may have difficulty initiating relationships ... — Asa Don Brown

This isn't normal. This isn't how normal people think.
Fuck off, world- what the hell is normal anyway? — Elizabeth Haynes

All victimhood is ego and is not spiritually inspired — Frank Healy

I look upon the gift of my life as a wondrous journey. — Maureen Brady

Fearing the unknown within myself has kept me crouching in a corner. I look to see who I am and discover much that is worthy. — Maureen Brady

the gravity of wound to fist — Karen Russell

Many people with Dissociative Disorders are very creative and used their creative capacities to help them cope with childhood trauma.p55 — Marlene Steinberg

Don't judge yourself by what others did to you. — C. Kennedy

It's all interrelated, these destructive things I do. I latch on to people, like I'm collecting them. I'm always looking for a hero, you know? — Jenna Brooks

Don't you love your mother, dear?"
"I guess so. A hard, sharp, thorny kind of love that might be pity more than anything else. — Dean Koontz

We laughed the laugh of women untethered, finally, from their origins. — Lidia Yuknavitch

It takes one a long time to become young. - Picasso — Patsy Asuncion

Psychological and emotional wellness is an ongoing process for everyone. — C. Kennedy

I sometimes continue to see myself in split ways; it causes me trouble and contributes to a lack of satisfaction with myself. — Maureen Brady

Abuse doesn't define you. — C. Kennedy

...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

For all those who believed me,
and for all those who didn't.
It can't be easy hearing
things that you shouldn't. — Icarus X.

It is dangerous to use our own ability to access non-traumatic memories as a standard against which we judge a trauma victim's response. — David Yeung

One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty. — Stefan Molyneux

Even in death, her mother was winning. — Noorilhuda

It is always a mistake to underestimate how long it takes for mankind to understand the traumas it has suffered, especially the self-inflicted ones. — A.C. Grayling

The repulsive actions of the person who abused you do not identify you. — Tanya R. Liverman

I grew up missing my mom while she was right in front of me. — Maggie Young

I am filled with truth at my center where I once held shame. — Maureen Brady

A learning curve isn't a perfect arc. — C. Kennedy