Abuse Quote by Robin Quivers

“The most important thing in defining child sexual abuse is the experience of the child. It takes very little for a child’s world to…

— Laura Hough

“Ritualised child sexual abuse is about abuse of power, control and secrecy. Ten years ago many people found it difficult to believe that fathers…

— Laurie Matthew

The abused child goes on living within those who have survived such torture, a torture that ended with total repression. They live with the…

— Alice Miller

I was a sick child, I was scared, and honestly speaking, I never thought about why I didn't tell anyone about my abuse. Abuse…

— Laxmi Narayan Tripathi

“Survivors are damaged to different degrees by their experiences. This does not depend on what happened physically. A Survivor who has been raped will…

— Carolyn Ainscough

“Logic becomes a loud voice when the wall of our past abuse begin to crack with awareness. But that's our adult speaking. The child…

— Jeanne McElvaney

“Children who are victimized through sexual abuse often begin to develop deeply held tenets that shape their sense of self: 'My worth is my…

— Rachel Lloyd

“The people who were behind my abuse were very clever. They had created something which would be so difficult to explain, so difficult to…

— Laurie Matthew

“Though, the type of abuse differs from each individual, all survivors of child abuse deal with a certain extent of trauma, consciously or unconsciously.”

— Patricia Dsouza

“How do we find words for describing levels of betrayal and emotional, physical, sexual and spiritual torture that fragment and destroy a child or…

— Valerie Sinason

Through Heaven's Gate and Back speaks to all of us that have been abused as children. Lee Thornton's descriptions of the aftereffects of repeated…

— Charles L. Whitfield

“The experience of chronic abuse carries within it the gross mislabeling of things. Perpetrators are really "nice daddies." Victims are "evil and seductive" (at…

— Diane Langberg