1,745 Quotes About Abuse

When the traumatic event is the result of an attack by a family member on whom victims depend for economic and other forms of security (as occurs in victims of intrafamilial abuse) victims are prone to respond to assaults with increased dependence and with paralysis in their decision-making processes. Thus, some aspects of how people respond to trauma are quite predictable - but individual, situational and social factors play a major role in the shaping the symptomatology.

My biggest fantasy was to be able to take my revenge, which is a seriously screwed-up mentality for a child to have.

My mother, after stopping her physical abuse, began conveying my private life through a filtered lens to my relatives via phone. She was the 'dutiful mother' and painted our family portrait as a hardship because of me.

You get out of hell one step at a time." -- Abbie Sullivan, "Cinderella Shoots the Moon.

In one small moment, with one warm breath on his chapped and leathery skin. . .she became more than a statistic.

Everyone suffers, we're all caught in a vicious circle of anguish and distress, passed on from abused generation to abused generation. The only way out is to recognise the abuse, and step away from it.

You win by sensuality what you cannot win by force.

Of all the horrid ramifications of child abuse, the self-beliefs formed by the child reap the greatest destruction. Abuse is the most penetrating and permanent communication possible, and it always conveys to the child one or more of several messages: ‘I caused it to happen. It’s my fault because I am bad. I don’t deserve any better.

17 per cent jump in gender-based violence cases, with urban areas witnessing a particular spike.