Amy Butcher > Quotes

“More often, it seems to me, what doesn’t kill you doesn’t make you stronger but becomes a blemish you work your whole life to find a way to live with.”
― Amy Butcher, Mothertrucker: Finding Joy on the Loneliest Road in America

“the biggest mistake I’ve ever made was allowing a man to decide if I was worthy, and then believing him when he said I wasn’t.”
― Amy Butcher, Mothertrucker: Finding Joy on the Loneliest Road in America

“This one misconception about abuse most women know but I was still learning: abuse is not deterred by social class, by economic or financial privilege, by sexual orientation or race. These things undoubtedly influence how easy it is to leave—and to be successful in that endeavor, to be supported and safe and even believed—but they are in no way a barrier to abuse.”
― Amy Butcher, Mothertrucker: Finding Joy on the Loneliest Road in America

“I’ve heard it said before that sometimes all women have are stories. And that because women are so often stripped of the power or the autonomy or the safety to tell their own, it is up to other women to share their stories for them.”
― Amy Butcher, Mothertrucker: Finding Joy on the Loneliest Road in America

“This is the difficult truth of being abused: you come to expect abuse everywhere, and certainly from any person who resembles your abuser in any way. The generosity flees; the kindness inside you flees. There is no benefit of the doubt, no opportunity for pleasure. The mind tries to anticipate, to outwit, outsmart, and flee. It is a fight-or-flight behavior that encourages an antagonistic approach to the world, and it is not fulfilling, not empowering. It makes me feel, instead, very small.”
― Amy Butcher, Mothertrucker: Finding Joy on the Loneliest Road in America

“learn”
― Amy Butcher, Mothertrucker: Finding Joy on the Loneliest Road in America

“She told me of a study in which scientists determined that domestic abuse lights up the same neurotransmitters as gambling.”
― Amy Butcher, Mothertrucker: Finding Joy on the Loneliest Road in America

“I also know from experience how dangerous it can be to interpret everything as God’s reward or God’s punishment.”
― Amy Butcher, Mothertrucker: Finding Joy on the Loneliest Road in America

“I know Joy and I both learned early in our lives that a lack of love is just as dangerous as anything else this world presents.”
― Amy Butcher, Mothertrucker: Finding Joy on the Loneliest Road in America