Abuse Quote by Judith Lewis Herman

“...Incest is rape by extortion. Thus the child's very childhood becomes a weapon used to control her.”

— E. Sue Blume

“The vast majority of incest begins years before the earliest conceivable age of consent. p4”

— Judith Lewis Herman

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

— John Bradshaw

“the fabric of family, the limits of love, the loss of innocence and the birth of knowledge.”

— Betty Smith

“There is always the fantasy of maternal love, but it does not accommodate a mother's fear of her children.”

— Stephanie Bishop

“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

“In the context of Lawrence's rejection of the Freudian notion of incest and the close identification between author and character, Sons and Lovers becomes…

— John E. Stoll

“peculiar, or sad, and yet still deserve a place within the circle of familial love. The parents would thus have created an invaluable wellspring…

— Alain de Botton

It sounds not only disagreeable but also paradoxical, yet it must nevertheless be said that anyone who is to be really free and happy…

— Anonymous

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

— Lynette Gould

“By making the birth of the child the physical choice of the mother, the sexual revolution has made marriage and child support a social…

— George Akerlof

“Incest, rape and abuse is rampant everywhere, even in our churches, but society is silent. It is a silent epidemic. One in three women…

— Diane Chamberlain