Elizabeth Smart Quotes

So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it?

My father, unusually for a PoW, talked about his experiences, but he talked about them in a very limited way.

At first, I didn't want to accept that I had been abducted. I kept thinking, 'Next week, I'll be freed.'

The PoWs went through something so horrible, you don't know who's coming back.

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

Pain leaves a mark, the degree depending on the person and the event.

Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.

I've been on 'Criminal Minds' twice! On the first show, a boy brought kids out to the woods and was beating them with a baseball bat, but I got away. Then they brought Tracy, my character, back - as a kidnapped girl. They saved me two times! Tracy lived!

My daughters have grown up knowing all about my kidnapping and the case and what happened.

When they first grabbed us, yeah, it terrified, but they calmed me down.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

For a long time, sure, I was letting the pressure of being Rodney King get to me. It ain't easy. Even now, I walk into a place wondering, 'What people are thinking? Do they know who I am? What do they think about what happened? Do they blame me for the all those people who died?'

I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet.

I did not want to be labelled 'the designer who survived the atomic bomb,' and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.

For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped.

I've read and traveled a lot in the Middle East, and I built on eyewitness accounts of horrific executions that would shape a boy's character and beliefs if he watched his father die that way. These are the stuff of which nightmares are made.

Hell no! Not one thing! You don't reward a kidnapper.

People … are frequently visited by the Mambari as slave-dealers. This trade causes bloodshed; for when a poor family is selected as the victims, it is necessary to get rid of the older members of it, because they are supposed to be able to give annoyance to the chief afterward by means of enchantments

I was adopted without the benefit of papers. They used to hide adoption in the forties; I don't know why. Perhaps it was shameful. I could have been kidnapped - there are all kinds of crazy things that people have done - but I got over dealing with that a long time ago.

That happened to me, but I'm so much more than that girl that was kidnapped.

I'm grateful for rain because, when I was kidnapped, that meant that I had something to drink.

Jason Voorhees was a kid who was picked on at summer camp, and Michael Myers was someone vilified by his own family. I think that's why gay people like horror movies, because it's seeking revenge on the privileged.

There are a series of emotions that most survivors go through after disclosing. It starts with feeling great, like the weight on your shoulders has been lifted, and then you're alone with your thoughts, like, 'Why did I do that?' And then, what about the person who gets backlash?

I under no circumstances want to be seen as a victim. I have worked with victims of sexual violence and I don't have a candle to hold to the experiences of those victims.

My role in 'Love Sonia' gripped me to the extent that I started despising the male touch. I would stand under the shower for long spells. It just didn't feel nice.