Tatum O'Neal Quotes

I never abused anybody but myself.

So, what, you got cigarette burns, too?" Gitanes said. Chip showed his palm, "It's nothing." "Self-inflicted. You pathetic American." "Different kind of prison" Chip said.

Self-harm - the world will come at you with knives anyway. You do not need to beat them to it.

I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'

I also had to work through the violation of my date rape, my unhealthy relationships with men, my anger toward the people involved in the scandal, and those who exploited me afterwards.

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.

I was an abused kid.

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

I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me.

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.

Let's not glamorize abuse.

My mom got shot. My dad got shot. Some of the craziest stuff. All that happened to me.

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

We're all painfully aware of how suddenly violence can occur, how crippling it is, and how survivors have to find a way back from that.

I had lived with abuse for many years, but the worst abuse has been at my own hands and the appalling situations I have tolerated.

For some people, it is easier to command a nation, to send thousands to their deaths in unnecessary wars, to separate children from their families and inflict terrible suffering, than to process their own trauma and pain.

I love those sorts of stories where you actually see the consequences of what violence does physically to people as well as psychologically.

That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window.

Scars crossed her welded wrists.

She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped - by me.

I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with their drops and one man after another goes in and takes you.

If I abuse myself daily, who can I love?

I wanted to be kicked and hit and bruised up and beaten. It became something that was an absolutely necessary part of every day for me.

A lot of child soldiers lose their minds.

It's hard to think what should make your blood boil more - what happened to Billy Ray or what didn't happen to those who abused him. It's something we can't ignore.