“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
[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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Weird? Absurd? That’s how it seemed to me. I had these forces, these compunctions, these alternative personalities inside me, driving me. It… — Alice Jamieson 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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Fear, if it be not immoderate, puts a guard about us that does watch and defend us; but credulity keeps us naked,… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Many White people are not sensitive to the kind of abuse that African Americans, especially younger African Americans, receive at the hands… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
If we had no hope - for a cure, for winning the lottery, for falling in love, for the end of war,… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The conservatives have already accepted a large part of the collectivist creed-a creed that has governed policy for so long that many… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“It’s not that men and women are identical; it’s just that they are so near identical in all but the political abuses… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“Despite its popularity amongst critical criminologists, the empirical basis of the moral panic account of sexual abuse has been shown to be… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“Traumatic events destroy the sustaining bonds between individual and community. Those who have survived learn that their sense of self, of worth,… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“My job as a therapist is to help victims of trauma understand that they are not to blame. They are not responsible… — Michelle Stevens Copy Share Image
“The odd sensation I had while cooking would often last through the meal, then dissolve as I climbed the stairs. I would… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusive memories. They have to:… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
“It was that culture of denial that allowed my abuse to take place to start with. Did you know that it wasn't… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“She's a baby," Maggie told me. "Babies wear pastels." "Says who?" I asked. ... "Society. The same society, I might add, that… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image