When someone comes under abuse or attack a characteristic response is to blame yourself, especially if you are locked into a relationship… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
I use my work as catharsis. That's often the best thing that we can do, is to allow ourselves to rage because… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
“The discovery that detonated Cleveland is one of Britain’s great contributions to awareness of child abuse. In 1986 and 1987 the Leeds… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
“In projecting onto others their own moral sense, therapists sometimes make terrible errors. Child physical abusers are automatically labeled “impulsive," despite extensive… — Anna Salter Copy Share Image
“I think most people are just trying to be happy, and that most of their actions, however misguided, are in line with… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
“In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. Secrecy and silence are… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“The first generation of therapists doing this work were told by their clients that the one massive cult was everywhere, knew everything,… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“One year later the society claimed victory in another case which again did not fit within the parameters of the syndrome, nor… — Trouble and Strife Copy Share Image
Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Never believe a man's claim that he has to harm his partner in order to protect her; only abusers think this way. — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“when you disolve the abuse inside, all the abusers outside are disolved by inner god force.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Psychological abusers like people who make them look or feel good.” — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
We should hold abusers — and no one else — responsible for the damage they inflict. — Leslie Morgan Steiner 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
“Normal people have a hard time comprehending that abusers go to such lengths, but they do.” — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
I don’t have any doubt in my mind that there will come a time when we will see violence against animal rights… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
“Until this point Tiffany had assumed that abusers... must live in denial. If not, how could they go on? How could you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Some abusers on the middle-to-high end of the toxicity spectrum have absolutely no reservations about damaging survivors in any way possible, even… — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
I was evicted because of the violence a former partner committed against me and believe no person should lose housing due to… — Cori Bush Copy Share Image
“Thomas was the most loving, wonderful, and attentive husband that I could ever imagine on some days, and on others it was… — Sara Niles Copy Share Image
Abusers are engineers and architects and janitors and police officers and any other walk of life. There's not a job or profession… — Kim Gandy Copy Share Image
Many people in this world are not raised to understand the concept of consent, in all walks of life, and it's important… — Emma Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“Controllers, abusers, and manipulative people don't question themselves. They don't ask themselves if the problem is them. They always say the problems… — Darlene Ouimet Copy Share Image
I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Politicians are propaganda, the people with guns are the enforcers and the media is the enthusiastic lapdog who enables the entire behavior… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
The sense of ownership is one reason why abuse tends to get worse as relationships get more serious. The more history and… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“Most people have no clue hidden abuse is taking place right under their noses. It is being perpetrated by individuals who would… — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
It's just that I have this funny objection to torturing small animals no matter how scrumptious their body parts might be. ...… — Ron Reagan Copy Share Image
Often we take personally the slings and arrows of our 'abusers'. But frequently we are merely the interchangeable pawns of their own… — Brian Weiss 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 brain of a person in love will show activity in the amygdala, which is associated with gut feelings, and in the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“THE MYTHS ABOUT ABUSERS 1. He was abused as a child. 2. His previous partner hurt him. 3. He abuses those he… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“The abuser’s mood changes are especially perplexing. He can be a different person from day to day, or even from hour to… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“It is often said that Vietnam was the first television war. By the same token, Cleveland was the first war over the… — Sue Richardson Copy Share Image
“[Refers to 121 children taken into care in Cleveland due to suspected abuse (1987) and later returned to their parents] Sue Richardson,… — Heather Bacon Copy Share Image
“The woman who left abusive husbands in the 60's and 70's improved the institution of marriage because men now know that women… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“IN ONE IMPORTANT WAY, an abusive man works like a magician: His tricks largely rely on getting you to look off in… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“In this book we paint an unprecedented portrait of Britain’s first ‘false memory’ retraction and show that, like other ‘false memory’ cases… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
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![“[Refers to 121 children taken into care in Cleveland due to suspected abuse (1987) and later returned to their parents] Sue Richardson, the child abuse consultant at the heart of the crisis, watched as cases began to unravel: “All the focus started to fall on the medical findings; other supportive…” quote by Heather Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/54c/heather-bacon-167492_abuse_refers-to-121-children-taken-into-care-i_2551343.jpg)
