Abusive father Quote by Carolyn Spring

“More than one personality was created in the hope of being the daughter Nancy could consistently love. More than one new personality was created…

— Joan Frances Casey

“The little girl's dependency on her father made [his] abuse more insidious.”

— Joan Frances Casey

“We are all born same, we are completely cute, innocent, sweet, and we need that reflection of ourselves as little human beings to live,…

— Anneke Lucas

“The shared secret and the shared denial are the most horrible aspects of incest.”

— John Bradshaw

“Denial is our very real, personal response to our own trauma. But denial is the normative response to trauma—by everyone. Society may deny that…

— Carolyn Spring

“In this climate of profoundly disrupted relationships the child faces a formidable developmental task. She must find a way to form primary attachments to…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“Family myths are cherished by the people who--however unwittingly--have brought them into being. In my own situation, what my father was really saying to…

— Mark Sichel

One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth

— Smokey Robinson

As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“I wanted my mother to love me. Despite all the torture and brutality.”

— Wendy Hoffman

“Nancy was as proud as she was critical of her younger daughter. She spoke glowingly about the precocious little girl who said her first…

— Joan Frances Casey

“In some instances, even when crisis intervention has been intensive and appropriate, the mother and daughter are already so deeply estranged at the time…

— Judith Lewis Herman