Hate Quote by Clemantine Wamariya

“I'm not a victim. I'm not a survivor. I'm a fighter.”

— J.E. Mathewson

The last thing I want to be known as is 'The Girl Who Got Raped'. The big turn around you make in your head…

— Tori Amos

“It took me a long time, but I prefer “victim” to “survivor” now. I don’t want to diminish the gravity of what happened. I…

— Roxane Gay

[The kidnapping] happened 14 years ago, and I didn't talk about it for ten years because I was too embarrassed. I was too scared.…

— Frida Farrell

“Sometimes we wore such hurtful, limiting labels in this life, whether they'd been assigned by others or by ourselves. I'd felt damaged and ruined…

— Mia Sheridan

The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and…

— Barry Eisler

“We wrap our arms around each other and we cry. We cry mother to daughter. We cry aunt to niece. We cry victim to…

— Colleen Hoover

I'm a survivor. But I'm also victim, too. Surviving has the connotation that you've been through it, you lived through it and that's wonderful…

— Margaret Cho

There was a reason these boys were still alive, though. Something made them stronger than the other kids, the ones who had died in…

— Charlie Higson

There is no shame in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is on the aggressor.

— Angelina Jolie

I've taken my cue from people here and from viewers, especially survivors-who said, 'When it's time to literally flip your wig, you'll know.'

— Robin Roberts

Sometimes, Ms. Lane," he said, "one must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It…

— Karen Marie Moning