“When trauma involves intentional harm, such as in a crime or abuse, trust can totally collapse.” — Dena Rosenbloom Copy Share Image
“No, not in a creepy way. I am anti-incest. It says so on my bumper sticker.” — Laurel Ulen Curtis Copy Share Image
“It would appear that I have tried everything except incest and folkdancing.” — Hermione Gingold Copy Share Image
“Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life” — Lynette Gould Copy Share Image
“The vast majority of incest begins years before the earliest conceivable age of consent. p4” — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“The horror of incest is not in the sexual act. but in the exploitation of children and the corruption of parental love.… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“...Incest is rape by extortion. Thus the child's very childhood becomes a weapon used to control her.” — E. Sue Blume Copy Share Image
“After a while, marriage is a sibling relationship--marked by occasional, and rather regrettable, episodes of incest.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Then there was the pain. A breaking and entering when even the senses are torn apart. The act of rape on an… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
On top of the abuse and neglect, denial heaps more hurt upon the child by requiring the child to alienate herself from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, hiding… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Without realizing it, I fought to keep my two worlds separated. Without ever knowing why, I made sure, whenever possible that nothing… — Marilyn Van Derbur Copy Share Image
It sounds not only disagreeable but also paradoxical, yet it must nevertheless be said that anyone who is to be really free… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“3. Here ‘the attraction of sexual intercourse between parents and child or grandchild as incest’, ‘Oedipus complex’ and ‘abnormal attachment of persons… — Lecturer M k Bhutta Copy Share Image
“Imagine the message that sent to my sister and me. A cousin violates us, confesses, and walks away with barely a slap… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
Philosophically, incest asks a fundamental question of our shifting mores: not simply what is normal and what is deviant, but whether such… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
“he could still never accept the way each owner, each shadow, filed in only to exchange a dented, malfunctioning version of himself… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Just as verbally and physically abused children internalize blame, so do incest victims. However, in incest, the blame is compounded by the… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
“I became skilled at covering my tracks, filling in the blanks. Sometimes the blanks were never filled. At other times, I would… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“She's terrified that all these sensations and images are coming out of her — but I think she's even more terrified to… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
“She was so upset about a blog that maybe a total of six people read yet had no compassion for her granddaughters… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
“To begin with, homosexuality has nothing to do with pedophilia; one is sexual orientation and the other is sexual perversion. Yet, in… — Albino Luciani Copy Share Image
“I used to teach at an abused children's home. I told the kids, "You all have a manure pile of memories. Nothing… — Rebecca O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“Weird? Absurd? That’s how it seemed to me. I had these forces, these compunctions, these alternative personalities inside me, driving me. It… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Mum was pregnant, then there was Sharron. [...] I wanted to keep him away from her - but for the wrong reasons.… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“Janna knew - Rikki knew — and I knew, too — that becoming Dr Cameron West wouldn't make me feel a damn… — Cameron West Copy Share Image
“The BFMSS [British False Memory Syndrome Society] The founder of the 'false memory' movement in Britain is an accused father. Two of… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
“We must know something about malevolence, about how to recognize it, and about how not to make excuses for it. We must… — Anna Salter Copy Share Image
“Psychological trauma is an affliction of the powerless. At the moment of trauma, the victim is rendered helpless by overwhelming force. When… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“One of the reasons a survivor finds it so difficult to see herself as a victim is that she has been blamed… — Diane Langberg Copy Share Image
“Although the terminology implies scientific endorsement, false memory syndrome is not currently an accepted diagnostic label by the APA and is not… — Michelle Rae Hebl Copy Share Image
“The survivor movements were also challenging the notion of a dysfunctional family as the cause and culture of abuse, rather than being… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
“The child who attends school does not remember the abuse that happens at home or via the family; those memories are held in… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“In general, the more dysfunctional the family the more inappropriate their response to disclosure. Never expect a sane response from an insane… — Renee Fredrickson Copy Share Image
“My goal in going public was not to put my extended family to shame, or to get back at Brian for abusing… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
“He's at war with himself. Why doesn't he surrender to his feelings and stop fighting himself? He has hang-ups that I must… — Steven L. Sheppard Copy Share Image
“Or in my grandparents's case, the circling worked like this: as they paced around the deck the first time, Lefty and Desdemona… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Without realizing it, I fought to keep my two worlds separated. Without ever knowing why, I made sure, whenever possible, that nothing… — Marilyn Van Derbur Copy Share Image
“It was that culture of denial that allowed my abuse to take place to start with. Did you know that it wasn't… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
![“Mum was pregnant, then there was Sharron. [...] I wanted to keep him away from her - but for the wrong reasons. In my head he was mine, he was my special person but, of course, as I was getting older, his interest in me was waning anyway. I don't know whether it was because he had lost interest in…” quote by Laurie Matthew](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca2/laurie-matthew-31209_abused_mum-was-pregnant-then-there-was-sharron_3212563.jpg)
![“The BFMSS [British False Memory Syndrome Society] The founder of the 'false memory' movement in Britain is an accused father. Two of his adult daughters say that Roger Scotford sexually abused them in childhood. He denied this and responded by launching a spectacular counter-attack, which enjoyed…” quote by Beatrix Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7d/beatrix-campbell-36463_abuser_the-bfmss-british-false-memory-syndrome_1769725.jpg)
