Last Word Quote by Lindsey A. Holcomb

“Abuse doesn't define you.”

— C. Kennedy

“Abuse is never contained to a present moment, it lingers across a person’s lifetime and has pervasive long-term ramifications.”

— Lorraine Nilon

“Abuse ambushed my life, I could not love myself truly and could never have a healthy relationship, they were either abused or completely impaired.”

— Patricia Dsouza

“To be defined by another is the worst form of abuse”

— Carmen Ferreiro-Esteban

“Sadly, that is exactly what happened. You were fully being yourself and the abuser was a chameleon. The abuser morphed to fit your ideal…

— Shannon Thomas

“Just because...you've been abused in your life, doesn't ever give you the right to go out and abuse others.”

— Timothy Pina

“When anyone abuses you verbally, do not react. Because the very words that they are using against you are the very words that they…

— Avijeet Das

“The worst part ever is discoursing about the abuse to anyone you trust in the family or friends and when they prefer not to…

— Patricia Dsouza

“In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the…

— Miguel Ruiz

“If abuse is to cease, and genuine love, respect, and trust are to be restored to the family picture- indeed to humanity's universal picture-…

— Moriah S. St. Clair

“If the relationship you had in the past or the one you have now is with a person or people who consistently make you…

— Gregory L. Jantz

“When we don’t honor ourselves, we are coming into agreement with the abuser’s toxic agenda. We end up abusing ourselves too.   While”

— Shannon Thomas