Child Sexual Abuse Quotes: top 33 famous quotes about Child Sexual Abuse

Child Sexual Abuse Quotes & Sayings

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

There is comfort in knowing that you don't have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal. — Ellen Bass

I had forgotten the fact that I had been raped, something no one would understand, how could anyone forget something as traumatic as being raped? — Stephen Richards

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

I was becoming a product of society, a hardened juvenile! Now I was becoming rebellious and hateful. — Stephen Richards

Mind Your Language in the Presence of Patriachs

Q. When is rape not rape?
A. When it is your father or stepfather. — S. Caroline Taylor

Hiding my pain and acting strong, afraid to cry and show my tears, I struggle with all this years later. — Erin Merryn

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

Don't put your child at risk. Limit unsupervised one-on-one time between your child & another adult or another child. — Carolyn Byers Ruch

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

And let's stop calling them "sex offenders," as if their crimes had anything to do with sex. (Perhaps Jeffry Dahmer was a "food offender.") — Mike Lew

Though no longer living in silence, I continued to carry pain and memories. — Erin Merryn

A son is a poor substitute for a mother. — Joseph Stefano

Because the child does not have the power to withhold consent, she does not have the power to grant it. — Judith Lewis Herman

The abuser's desire to abuse is not created by the child - it is there before the child appears — Carolyn Ainscough

Sadomasochiasm - which we know very well doesn't exist in societies that don't have child abuse - is regarded some sort of natural sexual expression. — Gloria Steinem

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

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

The initial trauma of a young child may go underground but it will return to haunt us. — James Garbarino

The horror of incest is not in the sexual act. but in the exploitation of children and the corruption of parental love. p4 — Judith Lewis Herman

I left the court feeling sure that Rose West would never walk free again. That thought made me happy. — Stephen Richards

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

Who said 'please' that made you hate the word so much?"
Andrew gazed at him in silence for a minute. "I did. — Nora Sakavic

Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation. — Judith Lewis Herman

The vast majority of incest begins years before the earliest conceivable age of consent. p4 — Judith Lewis Herman

Women need total life support services for the mother as she and the family move through the crisis following disclosure. — Janis Tyler Johnson

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

Not even Carol knows firsthand how it feels to be hurt in such a way by someone who's supposed to protect you — Ellen Hopkins

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

A man or a woman can't be defined by the pain inflicted in them by others or by someone else's issues, but by their own character and actions. — Linda Alfiori

No matter what tight corner I was in, I was capable of getting myself out of it ... not God! — Stephen Richards

I always thought of myself as being the unluckiest girl I knew. I was, I believed, a 'jinx' and I was 'jinxed', or so I thought! — Stephen Richards