Patricia Robinett > Quotes

“Cutting flesh hurts, she says, but words cut too. Words can cut as deeply as knives. Please be kind.”
― Patricia Robinett, The Rape of Innocence: Female Genital Mutilation & Circumcision in the USA

“God's will for you is perfect happiness.”
― Patricia Robinett, The Rape of Innocence: Female Genital Mutilation & Circumcision in the USA

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― Patricia Robinett, The Rape of Innocence: Female Genital Mutilation & Circumcision in the USA

“When we feel love, we are naturally kind and generous. But when we feel frightened, we get out the big guns -- to ostensibly defend ourselves! -- and sometimes we shoot ourselves in the process. We push good, kind, loving people away, scare friends off, rejecting them first, fearing that they will reject us.”
― Patricia Robinett, The Rape of Innocence: Female Genital Mutilation & Circumcision in the USA

“Tom's parents were growing old and one of his sisters had cystic fibrosis, so he moved back to Denver to spend some precious time with his family. I moved into town where I shared a house with a businesswoman, her son, and a foreign student from the university.”
― Patricia Robinett, The Rape of Innocence: Female Genital Mutilation & Circumcision in the USA

“All healing is essentially the release from fear.”
― Patricia Robinett, The Rape of Innocence: Female Genital Mutilation & Circumcision in the USA