1,745 Quotes About Abuse

No decent man would ever strike a woman or a child.

After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

She had been nothing but a beloved bauble passed from a mother to a son, a decoration of vanity, devoid of identity.

I realized the preserving a relationship at all costs was not as important as affirming the human right to be free from abusive treatment.

There is only so much abuse a worker will take before they decide to shut your biologically toxic operation down with legal science.

I am releasing my own demons of times gone by and seizing the opportunity to find my own corner, my own fortress, my own calm and peace. Life is not unfair.

When you first hit meI smiledNext time, I laughedThen, when it happenedI just joked casuallyThinking,it was unintentionalWithout realizingIt was real youWhile I still lingered intoMy idea of love

By the time Cheryl Hersha came to the facility, knowledge of multiple personality was so complete that doctors understood how the mind separated into distinct ego states, each unaware of the other. First, the person traumatized had to be both extremely intelligent and under the age of seven, two conditions not yet understood though remaining consistent as factors. The trauma was almost always of a sexual nature… (p52)

Weird? Absurd? That’s how it seemed to me. I had these forces, these compunctions, these alternative personalities inside me, driving me. It was like being a jack-in-the-box and I was unsure which personality was going to jump out next: Billy, who thought of himself as a cowboy or a terrorist; Kato the cutter; anorexic Shirley, whose only self-indulgence was binge drinking and the occasional salad sandwich. I didn’t dislike Shirley. I was afraid of her. Shirley knew things I didn’t.