Abuse-survivors Quote by Renee Fredrickson

What's interesting to me is that people engage survivors from a place of pity all the time - a place of sympathy.

— Tarana Burke

“Many Survivors blame themselves for the abuse and continue to feel responsible and guilty for anything bad that happens to them or to other…

— Carolyn Ainscough

“Most survivors tend to be the care-giver rather than the care-receiver. We tend to be good at being spouses and parents, anticipating our loved…

— Beverly Engel

The thing you see in survivors is that they express feelings - I won't say some of the things they tell their doctors, when…

— Bernie Siegel

“Being survivors signifies that we have recognized that we have been through a lot that should never have taken place and we now hope…

— Patricia Dsouza

“You must understand the pain and grief of losing someone is nothing more than a function of survival.”

— Steven Cooper

“A survivor who is isolated (whether in physical or emotional distance) from his or her family of origin will experience profound grieving.”

— Shannon Thomas

“I have met many, many severely distressed people whose daily lives are filled with the agony of both remembered and unremembered trauma, who try…

— Carolyn Spring

“Such it is for those in the grips of misfortune: declarations of support and sympathy, rather than providing comfort, may merely increase the victim's…

— Osamu Dazai

Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.

— Anderson Cooper

“is it not a duty to the survivors that we should refrain from augmenting their unhappiness by an appearance of immoderate grief? It is…

— Mary Shelley

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