Quotes from Beverly A. Ogilvie

In their minds, women can't do anything wrong.

She will be challenged to develop intimacy in an environment in which all intimate relationships are corrupt. She will be challenged to develop an identity out of an environment which defines her as a worthless slave.

To actually begin to live with the awareness that her own mother used her for sexual purposes is the most devastating experience she has had to endure.

For survivors of biological mother-perpetrated abuse, the relationship with the mother is best characterized by the most severe physical, psychological, and spiritual disconnection. These women feel deceived, deserted, betrayed, confused, offended, and intruded upon to the very core of their existence.

Some types of child abuse, notably sexual abuse, lead to the traumatized individual to fuse sexualization with affection, such that any positive relationship has strong sexual overtones.