Quotes About Abuse
He loved me and he beat me. I loved him and I took it. It's as simple as that, and as stupid and complicated. It's terrible. It's like knowing someone you love is dead but not having the body to prove it. He loved me. I know it.
~ Roddy Doyle
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Paying attention to her bodily cues would have forced the girl to admit both her fear and her reluctance to let her mother touch her. This pattern of denial, if not stopped, will continue past childhood. As an adult, she may lack the physical boundaries that would protect her from abuse. She will allow herself to be close to people who are not safe. Saddest of all, she won't even trust her senses to know when abuse is occurring.
~ Rokelle Lerner
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When we can't make sense of the way we are being treated, we wind up distorting our view of ourselves and our relationships.
~ Rokelle Lerner
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Adults who were victims of emotional abuse must learn to trust their feelings. Feelings provide us with an immense amount of wisdom and information. Uncomfortable feelings that may have been dangerous to express in our original families are no longer dangerous. We have a right to be angry when someone offends us. Our fear protects us and even our pain helps us grow. For example, fear helps us know when we are in danger.
~ Rokelle Lerner
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The secular critique of communalism is not an opposition to religion but to the abuse of religion.
~ Romila Thapar
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And yet even among the friends of liberty, many people are deceived into believing that government can make them safe from all harm, provide fairly distributed economic security, and improve individual moral behavior. If the government is granted a monopoly on the use of force to achieve these goals, history shows that power is always abused. Every single time.
~ Ron Paul
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Government is wasteful, fraudulent, and abusive by its very nature. To get rid of waste, fraud, and abuse, government power has to be dealt with. Government's legitimacy has to be challenged. Its claims of success must be refuted. The people who desire peace and prosperity must accept the fact that government and the politicians never deliver peace or prosperity.
~ Ron Paul
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The word 'love' is a fucked up word that's been used and abused so much it no longer means shit. The same thing is true about 'beauty.' 'Beauty' doesn't mean anything anymore. Idots use the word, and look at what they use it for. Nothing! Anything! If you ever become educated, and I doubt if that will ever happen, you will have to understand that most of what you will learn is going to be just a lot of shit.
~ Ronald Everett Capps
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the old geezer was eighty, he'd been horseback riding only last year ... now he had a different sport, he went down on all fours and the kids rode him ... giddyap, horsie! they whipped him with his riding whip! ... till the blood came! ... he loved it! ... all around his study! faster! faster! ... los! ... into the next room ... witches! witches! he yelled at them, with his bare old ass! ...
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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Abusers are weak. They trap women who have gigantic hearts, who want to help these poor, sad wounded birds.
~ Luanne Rice
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He then turned back to his bride and paused as he noted the welts on her back. Ross recognized them as whip marks at once and it made him stiffen with rage at the thought of anyone touching her so in violence. He hadn't cared much for her parents; their demeanor was cool and uncaring toward their daughter. He hadn't seen a single sign of affection for her, but this pushed his feelings for them from indifferent to active dislike. Mouth
~ Lynsay Sands
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Have yoy escaped your past? Or do your abusers still visit your dreams? I haven't escaped it, per se. You can't escape the past, or erase it like it was never there, It happened. But I learned to accept it,and even appreciate it.
~ Lynsay Sands
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Above this clamour rose the sharp, urgent pheromone of human expectation - a scent compounded less of sex or greed or aggression than of substance abuse, cheap falafel and expensive perfume.
~ M. John Harrison
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Another crucial reform would be a federal mandate that kids in all residential programs must have unmonitored access to an abuse hotline that would trigger immediate investigation.
~ Maia Szalavitz
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The problem with the Mindset of a fair Democracy is that it purports to be a fair and trustworthy system, but history shows clearly how the voters' trust has been constantly abused.
~ Tony Dovale
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Well, let me tell you, your recollection of every last detail has nothing to do with memory. It's called holding a goddamn grudge. ... That's what I remember the most, not addresses but pain - that old lump-in-the-throat conviction that the world had fingered me for abuse and neglect. Is that the same as a grudge?
~ Amy Tan
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She tried to stand but he had her by the hair and with his other hand he was jerking back and forth on himself, and she couldn't breathe and then he let out a groan as warm spurts fell wetly across her cheek and nose and eye, and Davey was laughing as if he'd just scored points in a game, and Luke let go of her hair and she fell back on her hands.
~ Andre Dubus III
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Men on Women For men, their right to control and abuse the bodies of women is the one comforting constant in a world rigged to blow up but they do not know when." "Coitus as punishment for the happiness of being together" which is profound and moving.
~ Andrea Dworkin
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And yes, I mean it. A man who sticks his cock in an infant`s mouth belongs to Himmler`s circle of hell.
~ Andrea Dworkin
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What I've learned is that women suffer from terrible shame and the shame comes from having been complicit in abuse because one wants to live.
~ Andrea Dworkin
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I will say here what I have never said before: my pacifism was not challenged by the beating and torture I experienced in marriage some thirty years ago; I finally got away not because I knew that he would kill me but because I thought I would kill him.
~ Andrea Dworkin
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Klansmen were notorious for 'beating hell out of their wives," writes reporter Jack Nelson in Terror in the Night: The Klaris Campaign Against the Jews, "and their wives would complain to the FBI and request that their husbands be arrested. Instead the agents would inform the Klansmen of their wives' complaints, generating pressure within the families that the FBI could exploit.
~ Andrea Dworkin
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and if you are a stubborn child, a strong-willed child, you say the almost-ten-year-old version of fuck you something happened all right the fuck put his hands in my legs and rubbed me all over; my legs; *my legs*; me; my; my legs; my; my; my legs; and he rubbed
~ Andrea Dworkin
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I'm a veteran of Birkenau and Massada and deep throat, uncounted rapes, thousands of men, I'm twenty-seven, I don't sleep. They leave the shell for reasons of their own. I have no fear of any kind, they fucked it out of me some time age, it's neither here nor there, not good or bad, except girls without fear scare them.
~ Andrea Dworkin
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