If we want abusers to change, we will have to require them to give up the luxury of exploitation. — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
[ Alfred Kinsey] was sexually abusing those children and had sex abusers working for him to stimulate the babies. — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
You are five times more likely to be killed by your abuser if your abuser can get their hands on a gun.… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
“Another reason abusers don’t want to give up the ‘power’ is that they don’t want to give up the power.” — Sara Niles Copy Share Image
“Taking care of ourselves does not preclude educating abusers or removing them from our organizations.” — Fred Kofman Copy Share Image
Cocaine was different. It kept saying, "You haven't had enough." I became an abuser almost instantly. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
We are all potential murderers, and we are all potential rapists and abusers. — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
Feminism exists so that no woman ever has to face her abuser in isolation, alone. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Animal abusers are not the only culprits - the consumers are the biggest abusers! As long as buyers, users, attendees at animal… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
“The important point to remember is that most outwardly expressed emotions of psychological abusers are for a distinct purpose; that is usually… — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
I believe in having certain releases, certain outlets. One has to indulge. If you don't indulge, you don't live -might as well… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
Boy lovers and the lesbians who have young lovers... are not child molesters. The child abusers are priests, teachers, therapists, cops and… — Patrick Califia Copy Share Image
I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused… — Meg Tilly Copy Share Image
Another California study counted 30,000 substance abusers who are pregnant are White woman. So, The Wire paints the picture of drug addiction,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
The getting out part [of advise] may well be true. Because if you have tried the tender love thing... typically the abuser… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
“When an abuser gaslights, he or she sets up situations to make the target doubt their own memories and assessments of situations.… — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
There are certainly statistics which show that most people who become sociopaths, who become homicidal, who become child- abusers, have had a… — Connie Zweig Copy Share Image
A long-term substance abuser, a few months before his death, penned this poem: Went downtown, Hastings and Main, looking for relief from… — Gabor Mate Copy Share Image
Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure.… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
An abuser can seem emotionally needy. You can get caught in a trap of catering to him, trying to fill a bottomless… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ...… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Objectification is a critical reason why an abuser tends to get worse over time. As his conscience adapts to one level of… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Survivors who repeatedly believe they are the problem, they are broken, and they are not good enough, are people who are never… — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
“Many professionals have to sign gagging clauses or face the sack if they speak out. The social worker and therapist was familiar… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
“Some abusers organise themselves in groups to abuse children and other adults in a more formally ritualised way. Men and women in… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“Another preoccupation fed into this dynamic relationship between discovery and denial: does sexual abuse actually matter? Should it, in fact, be allowed?… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
“Because the problem of ritual abuse and mind control has not gone away - the survivors are still there - many more… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“(Talking about the movement to deny the prevalence and effects of adult sexual exploitation of children) So what does this movement consist… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
“Both incest and the Holocaust have been subject to furious denial by perpetrators and other individuals and by highly organised groups such… — Janet Walker Copy Share Image
“One of the obstacles to recognizing chronic mistreatment in relationships is that most abusive men simply don’t seem like abusers. They have… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“...Cleveland was the first war over the protection of children to be fought not in the courts, but in the media... Given… — Sue Richardson Copy Share Image
At the factory, I deal with ex-cons, substance abusers, and sexual harassers. And I'm not just talking about my mom. — George Lopez Copy Share Image
“Rather than being insecure, psychological abusers are easily offended, consumed with themselves, and want things just their way. Each” — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
“Abuse grows from attitudes and values, not feelings. The roots are ownership, the trunk is entitlement, and the branches are control.” — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“Psychological abusers are known for becoming jealous of any attention not being given to them.” — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
If you like capitalism, you will positively love depressions, because they are one and the same, like manic-depressives and their cycles, like… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
If animal abusers aren't going to stop perpetrating these types of atrocities, they ought to be stopped using whatever means necessary. What… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
“Playing the victim role: Manipulator portrays him- or herself as a victim of circumstance or of someone else's behavior in order to… — George K. Simon Jr Copy Share Image
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