Christina Crawford > Quotes

“The lawyer asked us to sit down. He was holding a copy of the will in his hands. I sat nearest him. He flipped several pages over and then handed me the copy, with only the last page showing. There at the top of the final page of the will was one short paragraph which read:

“It is my intention to make no provision herein for my son Christopher or my daughter Christina for reasons which are well known to them.”
― Christina Crawford, Mommie Dearest

“I had seen other women embark on spiritual journeys only to become frightened and turn back. Become frightened of what, I needed to ask. Today I believe that it was the collective remembrance of being his­torically, systematically, and culturally shamed, which was accompanied by the real annihilation that followed. At least in part, I believe it was actually the long-forgotten memory residing in the collective unconscious of what happened to women during the 700 years of the Inquisition, a memory which tells us that strong-willed, independent women seeking alternatives are still never very far from "the stake.”
― Christina Crawford, Daughters of the Inquisition: Medieval Madness: Origins and Aftermaths

“Way beyond the calls for equal pay, self-sovereignty, choice, politi­cal, legal and educational equality, as woman we each need to search our souls, grieve the enormity of what has befallen us, then find new ways to step outside the shame, to channel the outrage into outlets for progress. We need to cease identification with our oppressors so that we may lift up other women and learn the powerful word that means "no.”
― Christina Crawford, Daughters of the Inquisition: Medieval Madness: Origins and Aftermath

“[The doctor] asked if I knew what might be causing my headaches.

I looked her squarely in the face and said to her directly: “Yes, I hate my mother.”

That was the end of the interview. That was also the end of my visits to the doctor. That was not the end of my headaches.”
― Christina Crawford, Mommie Dearest

“I now understand that no learning that makes a difference to my soul’s evolutionary journey will come from the outside. Everything I need is inside….”
― Christina Crawford

“The second day of the book tour I stopped an interviewer and said, “Aren’t you asking the wrong question?” The interviewer stared at me blankly.

“The question is not really why I chose to share my experiences with other people. The question we should be dealing with is why does anyone mistreat their children? I think that’s what we should be talking about.”
― Christina Crawford, Survivor

“I remember [Mommie Dearest] always said, “Send me flowers while I’m alive. They won’t do me a damn bit of good after I’m dead.”

My mother died on the morning of May 10, 1977.”
― Christina Crawford, Mommie Dearest

“I wish we could sit together around the fire and tell one another the story of WOMAN, recounting the ceremonies of reverence for our deity and us in Her Image. I wish we could collectively hear the seasoned voices of our aunties, our grand-mothers and their grand-mothers through them, telling the age-old story of the love of woman, the love of life, the love our connection to the great mother Earth, from whence we come and into whose loving womb we will return when this journey is over, to be reborn again.”
― Christina Crawford, Daughters of the Inquisition: Medieval Madness: Origins and Aftermath

“It has always been believed that the woman has a power of perception beyond what is literally seen and heard. Whether it is called sixth sense or woman's intuition, it is a highly developed, extra sensitive ability to see what is behind and forward in time. The culture of the Goddess appears to have developed this natural ability and made it into a source of power and prestige for thousands of years.”
― Christina Crawford, Daughters of the Inquisition: Medieval Madness: Origins and Aftermath

“When one is ready, when we choose, the understanding will be a part of life. Then we are guided very differently.”
― Christina Crawford

“I have read your fantastical book "Mirror Mirror" with awe and applause!
Working with you on my regional TV show for a year was a godsend...you are an inspiration. All success.”
― Christina Crawford, Mommie Dearest

“The past is gone. It is now always today.”
― Christina Crawford, Survivor

“Mother took the big saw from me and walked over to the orange tree which stood at one end of the totally mutilated rose garden. It was a mature tree standing maybe eight feet tall, producing lots of oranges. It was covered with fruit.

The nurse, the cook, and I stood at a kind of breathless attention watching her as she began to saw the trunk of the orange tree! Finally we heard a cracking, splintering sound and the orange tree toppled over into the stubby remains of the rose garden.”
― Christina Crawford, Mommie Dearest

“with it much longer.”
― Christina Crawford, Mommie Dearest