“Taking care of ourselves does not preclude educating abusers or removing them from our organizations.” — Fred Kofman Copy Share Image
Feminism exists so that no woman ever has to face her abuser in isolation, alone. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
We are all potential murderers, and we are all potential rapists and abusers. — Volkmar Sigusch 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
“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
“Psychological abusers are known for becoming jealous of any attention not being given to them.” — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
If we want abusers to change, we will have to require them to give up the luxury of exploitation. — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
Abusers thrive on creating confusion, including confusion about the abuse itself. — Lundy Bancroft 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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
All European tradition, Marxism included, has conspired to defy the natural order of all things. Mother Earth has been abused, the powers… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
This is how you survive the unsurvivable, this is how you lose that which you cannot bear to lose, this is how… — Augusten Burroughs 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
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
“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
Marijuana is not addictive. People are the addicts and they will find a substance or a belief that will feed the addiction… — Steven Machat 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
It is not possible to be truly balanced in one's views of an abuser and an abused woman. As Dr. Judith Herman… — Lundy Bancroft 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
“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
“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
In my earliest of years, my mother was a huge force in my life. She was for all intents and purposes, a… — Harry Belafonte 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
“(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
“Normal people have a hard time comprehending that abusers go to such lengths, but they do.” — Shannon Thomas 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
“Abusers get one more opportunity to covertly insult the survivor when they say, “If only…” Toxic” — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
“Sexual abusers often convince their victims that the abuse was their own demerit.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image