Robin Quivers Quotes

Childhood bullying was a big part of my life.

Folks working late, I had a babysitter. I ain't about to sit here and name her. I was almost 8 when she came in late, woke me up with a game to play. Did a few things that it's hard to say. Told me to keep that secret safe. I'm trying to act like it ain't real. Had my innocence just stripped from me, and I still don't know how to feel.

The fathers, if they got me alone, would try to kiss and fondle me. I hated it.

I was an abused kid.

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.

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?

Bullies generally were bullied and are hurting inside much more than you could ever imagine.

Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.

What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them.

I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.

The use of rape or sexual intimidation as a means of punishment or retribution, whether by individuals or by groups, is unacceptable in our view.

At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn't speak. I only spoke to my brother. The reason I didn't speak: I had been molested, and I told the name of the molester to my brother who told it to the family.

It's a painful thing to talk about my childhood. I kind of don't talk about it much.

An abused childhood affects the entire life... It affects every facet of the life.

Violence is violence. Trauma is trauma. And we are taught to downplay it, even think about it as child's play.

Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.

You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.

The moment that I realized my name was going to be said in the same sentence as children and sex, that's really intense. That's something I knew from that very moment, whatever happens past that point, something's out there in the air that is really bad.

You can definitely become a victim and let people completely destroy your life.

I keep wondering how to explain the experience of child abuse from the inside. I'm going to try to explain what my world was like when I was sexually abused. The thing you have to remember is that this was the thinking of a child.

I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.

For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.

It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned with cigarettes. My hair was lit on fire.

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.