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
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
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
“Normal people don’t play all the toxic games psychological abusers do, and yet, survivors end up initially blaming themselves.” — Shannon Thomas 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
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 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
“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
“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
“To those who abuse: the sin is yours, the crime is yours, and the shame is yours. To those who protect the… — Flora Jessop 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
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
“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
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
“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
I did not know that the first step in any domestic violence relationship is to seduce and charm the victim. I also… — Leslie Morgan Steiner Copy Share Image
“The people who were behind my abuse were very clever. They had created something which would be so difficult to explain, so… — Laurie Matthew 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
“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
“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
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
“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
All my life I’ve been a lady bruiser, a wrong chooser, school refuser, drug abuser, born loser; clothes bummy, nose runny, it… — Big L Copy Share Image
“psychological abusers damage others – not out of impaired judgement – but because they enjoy the control they gain from abusing people.” — Shannon Thomas 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 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
The abuser knows where you work. Even if a woman goes underground at night, the abuser knows where to find her during… — Gordon Campbell 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
“many abuse victims don’t wish to let their abusers move onto the next victim after terrorizing them, because they fear that the… — Shahida Arabi 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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
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