Victoria S. Hardy > Quotes

“The truth is I was an abused kid, and had never processed any of it before I left home, pregnant and married, at seventeen. And leaving home as a teen I felt like a wild animal unleashed upon the world, wild, aggressive, and terrified, a broken child with no idea how to be an adult. I left home an injured kid looking for a dark hovel to hide away from the prying eyes, brutal words, and sudden psychotic violence, a place to lick and heal my wounds, and I found everything but that. I found the world to be just as brutal as my home, and I continued to attract exactly what I was running from, over and again.”
― Victoria S. Hardy, Momma Said Write a Book About It: Memoirs of a Scapegoat

“Hundreds of images passed through her mind, memories of situations where she simply conceded and gave in with no thoughts to what was best for her, hundreds of times she just accepted whatever was handed to her as though she had no right to an opinion, a desire, an emotion, or even her own thoughts. Hundreds of times she simply gave away her own power, weak and overwhelmed and unworthy.”
― Victoria S. Hardy, Momma Said Write a Book About It: Memoirs of a Scapegoat