Donna Rice Quotes

I was an abused kid.

I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.

I have been touched by extreme violence, and I have been robbed of the life I always wanted by someone who chose to do evil.

Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.

I got hit a lot. I'm glad I lived through it.

I was physically abused and I retaliated.

When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

I was always a sensitive, sweet kid, but I got brutalized and I became brutal. And frankly, I don't think it was my natural makeup. I don't think its anyone's natural makeup to be a violent brawler.

My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

I've been raped in Macy's window at high noon.

When people have been hurt over and over, and rather than compassion or understanding you're given lectures about how it's really all your fault and that no one needs to make amends, you can lose your mind.

Guys like to gaslight us, and it's not cool. And it happens so much; it's happened to me in relationships. It's happened to me where I have been cheated on, and I felt so sad and angry, like it wasn't my fault, but that was because the person was gaslighting me into thinking it was my fault.

Once, in high school, on a field trip away from school, some girls brought razors to shave their legs and threw them at me and told me to kill myself. But they were all insecure. They were angry, snapping at everybody.

I think if you're going to abuse someone, you really have to convince them of two things. First, you have to normalise what you're doing, convince them that it's not that bad. And the second thing is to convince them that they deserve it in some way.

My relationship was always abusive, so I chose to not socialise much. People who knew me knew that what pain I was going through.

The 'Horn 'OK' Pleassss' harassment incident and the mob attack there had sent me spiralling into a deep state of depression in 2008.

I went through child abuse, and I also went through abuse with dating a couple of boyfriends in high school. I also have gone through a divorce.

When I started talking to my therapist, we hit the source of my PTSD and the trauma that came from the things that occurred when I was younger - issues with my father and how that may have affected me.

So many people have been abused. It's not rare; it's a very common human experience, and we survive.

I don't want to get punched all my life.

When people repeatedly hit me, I would feel a sense of unfairness.

My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife.