Psychological Violence Quotes

“Marital psychological abuse suffered by a parent can never be understood by disrespectful, ungrateful, growing, biased, brainwashed children.”
― Angelica Hopes

“conditioned me to split my voice in two
one to keep to myself
the other to appease you”
― Laura Gentile, coming here to die: polyphonic grief poetry

“I’m extremely, almost pathologically sensitive to violence, and I pick up on it immediately when something violent is happening. Most people are constantly perpetrating little acts of violence on others, even when they don’t mean to.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, The Lake

“you violated the body in such a way
that only the soul would know”
― Laura Gentile, coming here to die: polyphonic grief poetry

“men needed two bodies to exist
one to exploit
and one to crown king”
― Laura Gentile, coming here to die: polyphonic grief poetry

“and through your touch
I lived in your past”
― Laura Gentile, coming here to die: polyphonic grief poetry