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People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner.
— Judith Lewis Herman
Survivors feel unsafe in their bodies. Their emotions and their thinking feel out of control. They also feel unsafe in relation to other people.
— Judith Lewis Herman
Most of our informants [incest survivors] remembered their mothers as weak and powerless, finding their only dignity in martyrdom.
— Judith Lewis Herman
After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.
— Judith Lewis Herman
I'm not a big raised stage fan.
— Tom Bergeron
When trust is lost, traumatized people feel that they belong more to the dead than to the living.
— Judith Lewis Herman
Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation.
— Judith Lewis Herman
The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.
— Judith Lewis Herman
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
Because the child does not have the power to withhold consent, she does not have the power to grant it.
— Judith Lewis Herman
Jealous of the actors now, are we?" "What, of some fancy boy on the screen? Inconceivable." Oh, this was going to be good.
— Ilona Andrews
It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all.
— Henry Fielding
Repetition is the mute language of the abused child.
— Judith Lewis Herman
The vast majority of incest begins years before the earliest conceivable age of consent. p4
— Judith Lewis Herman