Abusive-mother Quote by Wendy Hoffman Download Open image ““I wanted my mother to love me. Despite all the torture and brutality.”” — Wendy Hoffman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abusive-mother Abusive-parent Child abuse Child-abuse-survivor Child-maltreatment Despite Torture Emotional needs Mother Mother love Parenting Torture Brutality Trauma-bonding Wanted Mother
“She could see that like most people in the world, her mother just wanted to be loved.” — Rebecca Rasmussen Copy Share Image
“I will always love my mother for who she is and everything she does.” — Tammy-Louise Wilkins Copy Share Image
“I couldn’t bear to think of my mother loving me but unable to face me, to stare into my eyes, to care for me… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
“Always, always, always love your mother. No one else will ever love you like she does.” — Ibn Jeem Copy Share Image
“That was one thing I could be sure of, that my mother loved me. Fuck anyone who tried to come between us.” — Diane Guerrero Copy Share Image
“My mother was the person I loved most in this world. She was also the person that had messed me up the most.” — Rachel Higginson Copy Share Image
“And as for my mom, whatever happened, whatever her reasons were, they don’t really matter anymore other than as a way to know her… — Eliza Crewe Copy Share Image
“Your mother loved you. Do you understand? She loved you. She still loves you. She wanted you to be safe.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“By the time I rose and started walking again, I didn’t begrudge my mother a thing. The truth was, in spite of all that,… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“It surprised me to want her [my mother] the most, but I'd never been miserable without her.” — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
“This girl who equally drove me crazy and made me care about her more than I should. She was the only one who understood.… — Stacey Kade Copy Share Image
“As an adult, it shatters me that the child parts of my mind froze at those ages, didn't develop, and continued to believe the… — Wendy Hoffman Copy Share Image
“This book is not for the delicate or for people who are convinced the world is fine just the way it is.” — Wendy Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Scientists, doctors, and trained ordinary citizens use drugs and torture to render children machines that do others' bidding. The commands these perpetrators put in… — Wendy Hoffman Copy Share Image
“People don't make decisions within these sorts of groups. They try to avoid more torture. Then they are tortured into thinking they made a… — Wendy Hoffman Copy Share Image
“The concentration camps were a laboratory for the Nazis. They put the minorities and intellectuals in there because the general population wouldn't mind losing… — Wendy Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I imagine everyone wears layered masks, and parades around a variety or panoply of false selves depending on the occasion. Normal people do that… — Wendy Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I imagine everyone wears layered masks, and parades around a variety or panoply of false selves depending on the occasion.” — Wendy Hoffman Copy Share Image
“The shared secret and the shared denial are the most horrible aspects of incest.” — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“Joan Frances says her mother is perfect someone she models herself after. She is tortured because she is disobeying her mother by seeing me.… — Lynn I. Wilson Copy Share Image
“We are all born same, we are completely cute, innocent, sweet, and we need that reflection of ourselves as little human beings to live,… — Anneke Lucas Copy Share Image
“Jo tried to think about her suspicion that Lynn liked her. She figured that Lynn was nice to her because she was a patient.… — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
“More than one personality was created in the hope of being the daughter Nancy could consistently love. More than one new personality was created… — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
“In some instances, even when crisis intervention has been intensive and appropriate, the mother and daughter are already so deeply estranged at the time… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Nancy was as proud as she was critical of her younger daughter. She spoke glowingly about the precocious little girl who said her first… — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
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