“One of the main allegations that narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths make against survivors is that they accuse survivors of being disrespectful. Why… — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
“Other personalities are created to handle new traumas, their existence usually occurring one at a time. Each has a singular purpose and… — Lynn Hersha Copy Share Image
I do think a lot of sexual violence stems from experiences in childhood or at puberty. Some people become sadistic after suffering… — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
“psychologically abusive people set out to take down the biggest challenge that presented itself at the time. The abuser sees it as… — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
Among the many evils which prevail under the sun, the abuse of words is not the least considerable. By the influence of… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
“Often, our misunderstandings about love are born in disruptive family relationships, where someone was either one-up or one-down to an extreme. There… — Tim Clinton Copy Share Image
“Take off your damned wrapper! The old buffer ordered, looking intensely at her lower part. Comfort was on her knees, rubbing the… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Each one of us is more likely to believe someone when they point out our flaws and can connect what we know… — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
Just because you "liked" my picture, doesn't mean you shouldn't call me and ask me how I'm doing. You know what's funny?… — Derek Waters Copy Share Image
The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive. I have tried to stop… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I write two pages - that's all I write. It takes me about an hour. I've learned that's all I'm capable of… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“The far end of a continuum that aims to break the will of a child and allows the expression of displaced rage… — Chrystine Oksana Copy Share Image
I have pledged my word to help people on to truth while living and - will keep my word. Let them abuse… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Since so many people these days don't seem to start their families until around age forty, I predict there will be less… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
We as a human family are on this train that is taking us into more and more war and more and more… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
“When a stranger on the street makes a sexual comment, he is making a private assessment of me public. And though I’ve… — Leora Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Men swagger around calling themselves "cattlemen" but abuse their grass like a rapist. And abuse their cattle with concrete fecal feedlots without… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
With emotional abuse, the insults, insinuations, criticism, and accusations slowly eat away at the victim’s self-esteem until he or she is incapable… — Beverly Engel Copy Share Image
When I ran for attorney general, I promised to protect our seniors - and just look at what we've accomplished. From stopping… — Andy Beshear Copy Share Image
I got married at 22 and remained in an abusive marriage for 10 years. I made up my mind that that was… — Joyce Banda Copy Share Image
Without free speech no search for truth is possible; without free speech progress is checked and the nations no longer march forward… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
I think Dario Ringach is a poster boy for the concept that the use of force or the threat of force is… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
But whether you stay or go, the critical decision you can make is to stop letting your partner distort the lens of… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
Trump's pardon of Arpaio may not get as much attention as Russian influence or Trump's apparent obstruction of justice in the Mueller… — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton was impeached primarily for criminal conduct: lying under oath and misleading a federal grand jury about his affair with Monica… — Jonathan Turley Copy Share Image
[T]he Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“When I was cooking I enjoyed a sense of being ‘out’ of myself. The action of dicing vegetables and warming oil made… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Consider how challenging it is to negotiate or compromise with a man who operates on the following tenets (whether or not he… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
By creating a prosecutor who is overseen over by a court, they are melding executive and judicial power in a way that… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
“You may be operating from the belief that you must do everything yourself because no one will ever be there for you.… — Beverly Engel Copy Share Image
“I have sometimes said to a client: “If you are so in touch with your feelings from your abusive childhood, then you… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
I believe that the formation of the Chekas was one of the gravest and most impermissible errors that the Bolshevik leaders committed… — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
“An undergraduate researching the "witch hunt" cases asked for evidence that there had been more than one hundred cases, noting that the… — Ross Cheit Copy Share Image
Kind looks, kind actions, kind words, and a lovely, holy deportment towards them will bind our children to us with bands that… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
I've overcome a lot - sexual abuse, death of a loved one, bad parents and experienced life. My nature is such I… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image