“Mind Your Language in the Presence of Patriachs Q. When is rape not rape? A. When it is your father or stepfather.” — S. Caroline Taylor Copy Share Image
I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Become your own soulmate. Then you'll always have someone watching your back, and you'll always have someone who loves you.” — Rebecca O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“And thank you for saying all of that, and for loving me, for you haven't gone unloved, or unadmired, yourself.” — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
“Don't you understand brother? I want to find a love...that will free me from this love...” — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
“INCEST, n. In many parts of the Bible Belt, the most popular form of dating” — Charles Bufe Copy Share Image
“The shared secret and the shared denial are the most horrible aspects of incest.” — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“I think I know what he is REALLY doing in there... and thinking about ME while doing it." (continuing) "But when he… — Steven L. Sheppard Copy Share Image
“In the same way that the women's movement of the seventies and eighties brought rape and incest into public consciousness, we can… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“All emotions, even those that are suppressed and unexpressed, have physical effects. Unexpressed emotions tend to stay in the body like small… — Marilyn Van M. Derbur Copy Share Image
“The thing is, he was the best kind of guy. Protective and strong, loving and easygoing, funny and honest. He was actually… — Laurel Ulen Curtis Copy Share Image
“The adult incest survivor is likely to become involved in sexual relationships with older or more powerful people…There is little room for… — E. Sue Blume Copy Share Image
“Incest, rape and abuse is rampant everywhere, even in our churches, but society is silent. It is a silent epidemic. One in… — Diane Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“He stared at me in complete puzzlement, “And while I’m committing incest for you is there anything else you’d like? Maybe a… — Candice Raquel Lee Copy Share Image
“In some very rare cases, an opposite-sex pair was born, and they always mated one another. Disturbing as it might sound, when… — Belinda McBride Copy Share Image
“By developing a contaminated, stigmatized identity, the child victim takes the evil of the abuser into herself and thereby preserves her primary… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“A child who is being abused on an ongoing basis needs to be able to function despite the trauma that dominates his… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“The healing process is best described as a spiral. Survivors go through the stages once, sometimes many times; sometimes in one order,… — Laura Hough Copy Share Image
“As recently as 1975, a basic American psychiatry textbook estimated that the frequency of all forms of incest as one case per… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“He says, "I would walk around the township and I could point them out, which girls had been abused. You could see… — Emma Brockes Copy Share Image
“so that it isn't upsetting to anybody. It's something we've always known about fairy tales – they talk about incest, the Oedipus… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“Disclosures of childhood sexual abuse have frequently been discredited through the diagnosis of hysteria. In this view, women/female children were seen either… — Judith L. Alpert Copy Share Image
“I've been reading a book about romantic love. It's excellent. I have found a person that I definitely share core values with,… — Steven L. Sheppard Copy Share Image
“The return of the voices would end in a migraine that made my whole body throb. I could do nothing except lie… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Along with the trust issues, one of the hardest parts to deal with is the feeling of not being believed or supported,… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
“Frosh (2002) has suggested that therapeutic spaces provide children and adults with the rare opportunity to articulate experiences that are otherwise excluded… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“There were other strange signals and signs. Another day, suddenly felt an almost overwhelming urge to travel to Balitmore. I wanted to… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“That guy with the silver hair, he’s your dad, right?” Amber questioned, surveying the scene. “Yes,” I said, reluctant to say anything… — Brandi Salazar 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
“We must understand that those who experience abuse as children, and particularly those who experience incest, almost invariably suffer from a profound… — Cameron West Copy Share Image
“For all this talk about us being a nation at war with child abuse, and for all the media hype about witch-hunts… — Ross Cheit Copy Share Image
![“A child who is being abused on an ongoing basis needs to be able to function despite the trauma that dominates his or her daily life. That becomes the job of at least one ANP [apparently normal part of the personality], whom the child creates to be unaware of the abuse and also of the…” quote by Alison Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f94/alison-miller-20257_amnesia_a-child-who-is-being-abused-on-an-ongoin_1146863.jpg)
![“As recently as 1975, a basic American psychiatry textbook estimated that the frequency of all forms of incest as one case per million. [James Henderson, "Incest", in A. M. Freedman, H.I. Kaplan and B.J. Sadock, eds., Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 2nd ed. 1975 p. 1532.]” quote by Judith Lewis Herman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/679/judith-lewis-herman-19218_child-rape_as-recently-as-1975-a-basic-american-psy_1650810.jpg)
