Elder Abuse Quotes

“The young and the old are defenseless against relatives who want to get rid of them by casting them in the role of mental patient,and against psychiatrists whose livelihood depends on defining them as mentally ill.”
― Thomas Stephen Szasz, Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted

“Domestic violence is just as much a quality-of-life and liberty for community, social, and legal attention to support mental, emotional, health, wellness & physical safety as any other epidemic outbreak; only this illness has an anger managed, self-controlled, personal boundary-respecting, and accountability-subjective cure!”
― Tracey Bond

“But while pleased to surrender to Grace's authority, Janice enjoyed resenting it.”
― Celia Dale, Sheep's Clothing

“Janice watched him go with astonishing regret”
― Celia Dale, Sheep's Clothing

“I learned my dad’s live-in administrator (and ex-wife), who was more focused on itemizing his estate than my father’s well-being, grew weary of the sex-workers’ frequent visits to the residence. So at the age of sixty (and totally confined to a wheelchair), Richard Pryor was forced to undergo a needless vasectomy procedure. However I soon learned the real reason for the procedure was more economical, according to on of my dad’s old bodyguards, “Jennifer Lee said they couldn’t have him having no more babies. She felt too much was already going to the children he never even really planned on having. So they she his dick tied off. After that, he lost interest in life.”
― Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me