49 Quotes About Child-abuse-survivor

I lived through this horror, and no one can tell me I have to stay quiet."I have been silenced long enough, and I will not allow that family to silence me again. I will continue to speak out and make sure my voice is heard.

I’ll never ask you to pity him,’ she said. ‘Only to understand him.’We sat as we often did, in deadlock, each of us waiting for the other person to speak.‘I ask you,’ she said, ‘because I think that it might help you.

I've been working with alcoholics since I was 10 minutes old. Nurse says Here's your Mom, kid. Good luck.

I felt like I needed to comfort both the little girl inside me and my mother, assuring them that neither of them could have prevented the rape. I didn't want my mother to blame herself and I didn't want to blame the little girl inside of me for not speaking up at the age of six.

I was used, fucked, broken, toyed with and violated from the age of six.

My childhood ended around the time of my ninth birthday, shamed into sex, obedience and fear.

In spite of the horror, in spite of the tragedy, in spite of the weeks of sleepless nights, I'm finally alive. I'm not pretending. I feel real. I'm not playing charades anymore. I wouldn't go back to the way I was for anything. I'm really like a different person. I'm where I am, and I'm making the most of it. I know I'm courageous now. I found out I had it in me to face this. — Barbara

In order to survive our youth, many of us became sensitized to which conditions we had to play to, to receive attention. No wonder we mistook this attention for love. We thought love came in finite quantities—it had to be competed for among siblings, or it had to be paid for with exacting dues.

When I felt as though I had reached land, it was like I was on a deserted sandy beach, feeling isolated and afraid to share with anyone the memories that haunted me.