Robin McLeavy Quotes

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

What's good about talking about being victimized is that it is the beginning of being able to stop it.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.

They'll never do this to you again.

Those who are beaten become beaters.

The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.

The Republican Party, I really believe, suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder from years and years of bullying and taunting. The Republican Party is Jonathan Martin. The Democrat Party and the media are Richie Incognito.

'Stop playing the victim.' - unless you've been cast in a community theater production of 'Law & Order: SVU,' I'm not sure why anyone would choose to play victim.

I've been beaten. I know what that's like. They say, 'Who has been a nail can learn to be a hammer.' So I know what it is to beat people.

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.

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

When you abuse someone, you limit their perspective, and you trap them in your view of them or your view of the world.

Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it's you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

I did not realize how broken I was until I saw how broken Mama was.

Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.

'Firelight' is a beautiful story about a lot of young women. My character, Caroline, is a girl who has a bad boyfriend, and he ends up getting her locked up and incarcerated.

Everybody is not a victim.

I don't believe in revenge. When people are bullies it's because of a deeper-rooted issue - either their family life is tough or they're being bullied by someone bigger than they are.

I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor.

Where I'm from, they'll beat your head until it gets back down to normal size.

However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse.

Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being our villain, we must love being the victim. We have to let go of both characters in the story.

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.