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  • #1
    “One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
    ― Michael J. Fox
    tags: abuse, bullying, courage, dignity, saving-milly, self-esteem, strength
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  • #2
    Gail Honeyman
    “If someone asks you how you are, you are meant to say FINE. You are not meant to say that you cried yourself to sleep last night because you hadn't spoken to another person for two consecutive days. FINE is what you say.”
    ― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
    tags: abuse, depression, social-norms
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  • #3
    Bertolt Brecht
    “The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.”
    ― Bertolt Brecht
    tags: abuse, history, humanity, kiss, life, mankind, scars, wounds
    842 likes

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  • #4
    Jane Green
    “... you don't have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future.”
    ― Jane Green, Bookends
    tags: abuse, life
    525 likes

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  • #5
    Rupi Kaur
    “he placed his hands
    on my mind
    before reaching
    for my waist
    my hips
    or my lips
    he didn't call me
    beautiful first
    he called me
    exquisite

    - how he touches me”
    ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey
    tags: abuse, awareness, love, romance, self-love
    554 likes

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  • #6
    Oprah Winfrey
    “Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.”
    ― Oprah Winfrey
    tags: abuse, forgiveness, recovery, trauma
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  • #7
    Richelle E. Goodrich
    “There are many who don't wish to sleep for fear of nightmares. Sadly, there are many who don't wish to wake for the same fear.”
    ― Richelle Goodrich, Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
    tags: abuse, fear, hardship, nightmares, richelle, richelle-goodrich, suffering, trials
    308 likes

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  • #8
    To those who abuse: the sin is yours, the crime is yours, and the shame
    “To those who abuse: the sin is yours, the crime is yours, and the shame is yours. To those who protect the perpetrators: blaming the victims only masks the evil within, making you as guilty as those who abuse. Stand up for the innocent or go down with the rest.”
    ― Flora Jessop, Church of Lies
    tags: abuse, abusers, innocent, inspirational, lies, perpetrators, poetry, survivors, victims
    292 likes

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  • #9
    C. Kennedy
    “Don't judge yourself by what others did to you.”
    ― C. Kennedy, Ómorphi
    tags: abuse, abuse-recovery, abuse-sexual-abuse, abuse-survivors, gay-romance, gay-ya, glbtq, glbtq-romance, lgbtq
    293 likes

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  • #10
    Lundy Bancroft
    “Has he ever trapped you in a room and not let you out?
    Has he ever raised a fist as if he were going to hit you?
    Has he ever thrown an object that hit you or nearly did?
    Has he ever held you down or grabbed you to restrain you?
    Has he ever shoved, poked, or grabbed you?
    Has he ever threatened to hurt you?
    If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then we can stop wondering whether he’ll ever be violent; he already has been.”
    ― Lundy Bancroft, Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
    tags: abuse, abusive-men, domestic-violence, physical-abuse
    222 likes

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  • #11
    Kelley Armstrong
    “I don't forgive him," I said.
    "Hell, no, you don't. And why should you? So he can feel better? Get on with his life? And what's he done to help you get on with yours?”
    ― Kelley Armstrong, Frostbitten
    tags: abuse, coping, life-lessons
    151 likes

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  • #12
    Nathaniel Branden
    “The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.”
    ― Nathaniel Branden, Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
    tags: abuse, child-abuse, childhood-trauma, psychology, self-esteem, self-knowledge, trauma
    150 likes

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  • #13
    Colleen Hoover
    “Shouldn't there be more distaste in our mouths for the abusers than for those who continue to love the abusers?”
    ― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us
    tags: abuse, abuse-survivors, abused-women, victim-blaming
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  • #14
    “Nobody has ever killed themselves over a broken arm. But every day, thousands of people kill themselves because of a broken heart. Why? Because emotional pain hurts much worse than physical pain.”
    ― Oliver Markus Malloy, Bad Choices Make Good Stories (Omnibus): How The Great American Opioid Epidemic of The 21st Century Began - a Memoir
    tags: abuse, abuse-survivors, betrayal, cheating, emotions, pain, suicide
    90 likes

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  • #15
    Shaun Hick
    “Eyes so young, so full of pain ... Two lonely drops of winter rain ... And no tear could these eyes sustain ... For too much had they seen.”
    ― Shaun Hick
    tags: abuse, child, cry, crying, eye, eyes, girl, heartache, hurt, hurting, pain, rain, sad, sad-childhood, sadness, scared, tear, tears, war, winter, winter-rain, young
    81 likes

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  • #16
    P.A. Speers
    “We do not have to be mental health professionals to identify the traits of the possible sociopaths among us.”
    ― P.A. Speers, Type 1 Sociopath - When Difficult People Are More Than Just Difficult People
    tags: quotes-on-relationships, relationship, relationships, sociopath, sociopaths, sociopathy, therapy, toxic-people, truth
    57 likes

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  • #17
    Núria Añó
    “She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead.”
    ― Núria Añó
    tags: abuse, catalan-writer, catalan-writers, courage, dignity, dignity-for-survival, dignity-of-women, domestic-abuse, domestic-violence, double-standard, dv, eye-opening, feminism, freedom, gender, gender-inequality, hypocrisy, identity, insecurity, integrity, leave-home, leave-the-past, misogyny, nuria-ano, pain, painfully, realism, reason, relationship, self-awareness, self-determination, spanish-writer, spanish-writers, strength, woman, womanhood, women, women-s-day, women-s-rights, women-writers
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  • #18
    Robert G. Ingersoll
    “Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself.”
    ― Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses
    tags: abuse, argument, defeat, falsehood, logic, slander
    49 likes

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  • #19
    Mahavira
    “Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.”
    ― Mahavira
    tags: abuse, enslave, ethics, injury, jain, jainism, moral-teaching, morality, oppress, sentient-beings, torment, torture
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  • #20
    Laura Davis
    “Many survivors insist they’re not courageous: ‘If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.’ ‘If I were courageous, I wouldn't be scared’... Most of us have it mixed up. You don’t start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.”
    ― Laura Davis
    tags: abuse, child-sexual-abuse, courage, fear, healing, mental-health, survivors, trauma
    52 likes

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  • #21
    Stefan Molyneux
    “There's no weakness as great as false strength.”
    ― Stefan Molyneux
    tags: abuse, childhood-trauma, false-self, psychology, self-esteem, self-knowledge, therapy, trauma
    48 likes

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  • #22
    Matthew Little
    “I hope you see what you've done to me.”
    ― Matthew Little, Hell in a Basket
    tags: abuse, addiction, anxiety, depression, emotional-abuse
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  • #23
    Julie Klam
    “More often than not, what animals require our protection from is not hurricanes or fires, but abuse at the hands of other people".”
    ― Julie Klam, Love at First Bark: How Saving a Dog Can Sometimes Help You Save Yourself
    tags: abuse, animals, dog, protection
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  • #24
    Leora Tanenbaum
    “Abstaining from sex, hitting the books, and wearing loose-fitting clothes are common ways that girls try to molt their "slutty" image. But more often their shame leads them to self-destructive behavior. They become willing to do things that they wouldn't have dreamed of doing before they were scandalized because they now feel they have so little to offer. Some girls do drugs or drink to excess in an attempt to blot away their stigma. Others become depressed and anorexic. And others think so little of themselves that they date boys who insult or beat them.”
    ― Leora Tanenbaum, Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation
    tags: abuse, bullying, reputation, self-destruction, sexuality, slut-shaming, stigma
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  • #25
    Elvis Costello
    “Oh, I know that she's disgusted,
    cause she's feeling so abused.
    She gets tired of the lust,
    but it's so hard to refuse.”
    ― Elvis Costello
    tags: abuse, disgust, lust, promiscuity
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  • #26
    Pepper Winters
    “Sometimes, the only way to make your dreams come true is to shatter them.”
    ― Pepper Winters, Twisted Together
    tags: abuse, adult, bdsm, dark, erotica, romance, suspense
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  • #27
    “Why did I allow the abuse to continue? Even as a teenager?
    I didn’t.
    Something that had been plaguing me for years now made sense. It was like the answer to a terrible secret. The thing is, it wasn’t me in my bed, it was Shirley who lay the wondering if that man was going to come to her room, pull back the cover and push his penis into her waiting mouth it was Shirley. I remembered watching her, a skinny little thing with no breasts and a dark resentful expression. She was angry. She didn’t want this man in her room doing the things he did, but she didn’t know how to stop it. He didn’t beat her, he didn’t threaten her. He just looked at her with black hypnotic eyes and she lay back with her legs apart thinking about nothing at all.
    And where was I? I stood to one side, or hovered overhead just below the ceiling, or rode on a magic carpet. I held my breath and watched my father pushing up and down inside Shirley’s skinny body.”
    ― Alice Jamieson, Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind
    tags: abuse, anger, angry, anorexia, anorexic, child-abuse, dissociation, dissociative, dissociative-identity-disorder, floating, incest, mental-health, multiple-personality-disorder, rape, sexual-abuse, survivor, trauma, unreal
    31 likes

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  • #28
    Stefan Molyneux
    “Guilt is a feeling that you owe a debt that you're not paying.”
    ― Stefan Molyneux
    tags: abuse, freedom, guilty, inflicted-guilt, philosophy, psychology
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  • #29
    Richelle E. Goodrich
    “Some live for their own joy and pleasure.
    Some live to ease the burdens of others.  
    Then there are those who seem to exist for pain's sake only, that in the end the wrathful fire sent to consume their oppressors will be justified."

    ~ In loving memory of Miss Annabelle Fancher”
    ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Secrets of a Noble Keykeeper
    tags: abuse, annabelle-fancher, existence, helping, justice, life, oppression, pain, richelle, richelle-goodrich, suffering
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  • #30
    “All you care about is the control and power you have over me and I hate myself for giving that to you!”
    ― Lydia Kelly, Screaming in the Silence
    tags: abuse, conflicted
    14 likes



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