Abuse Quote by E. Sue Blume

“The horror of incest is not in the sexual act. but in the exploitation of children and the corruption of parental love. p4”

— Judith Lewis Herman

“He says, "I would walk around the township and I could point them out, which girls had been abused. You could see it in…

— Emma Brockes

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

— John Bradshaw

“She couldn’t imagine a father hurting his child. Or a mother failing to protect her child.”

— Ellen Marie Wiseman

“She sees now that the problem of the girl will never be solved, not as long as people have the capacity to reproduce themselves.…

— Jesse Kellerman

“Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life”

— Lynette Gould

“Your lifelong rebellion against all forms of authority stems from the infant’s desire to murder the father and possess the mother.”

— Donald O'Donovan

“I said I have committed incest father I said”

— William Faulkner

“Who has more power than a child? She can be as cruel as she wants to be. He can't.”

— Michael Cunningham

“I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all the same.”

— Laura Whitcomb

“There's nothing harder than seeing your child be the victim of something you and she cannot control.”

— Brooke and Keith Desserich

“Sometimes I began to wonder if she was taking vengeance on behalf of her ancestor women whom her ancestor men turned into sex slaves…

— S. A. David