1,745 Quotes About Abuse

Testifying against my abuseris not about a trialor about revengeThis is a woman learningthat to wear the burden of hurtbut to deprive herself of the blessing that is healingis its own injustice.

I shoot the man who told me my womanism is of the devilAs if he knew the demons that trouble meThese demons that trouble meHave no trouble shooting youThey shoot youThey will not prayFor God’s forgivenessI always knewI had a little bit of heathen in me.Always knewI had a lot of woman in me.We shoot you

All abusive systems are facilitated by bystanders, whose awareness of what is disavowed is always partial, resulting in a state of knowing and not-knowing. As dynamics shift, bystanders may behave like victims—passive, helpless, frightened and frozen, or like perpetrators—taking vicarious and voyeuristic pleasure in abuse or actively aiding and abetting the abusers.

Whatever it was, she knew she would not be blamed for it, she was blameless. But what use had that been to her in the past, to be blameless? So at the same time she felt guilty, and as if she was about to be punished.

Some of the experiences endured by human beings on this earth are virtually unbelievable.

We look at your eyes. The eyes carry the wounds. The eyes know damage. Damaged people recognize other damaged people, and we let you in. We are kindred. - Broken Places

Abuse may consist of physical maltreatment or language that is belittling, discriminatory...

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