Abuse Trauma Quotes

My father was very abusive, and it was hard for my mother at first to leave because we had depended on him for so long. Sometimes you kind of get adjusted to getting that beating.

My father was English. He date-raped my mother so she's hated English men ever since. You know my boyfriend's English, and I'm, uh, I'm half-English, which she's never been real happy about. If she finds out I'm dating someone English, she'll ah, think I' turning my back on her and becoming a foreigner.' Cathy, that's the stupidest reason I've ever heard.

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

I always found myself trying to cover the mental anguish and the torment and the abuse that I was dealing with. That made me always question my beauty, my intelligence, and a lot of other things about myself.

Imagine your own daughters being sold into a life of rape and bone crushing labor.

Pity is a really odd thing with abused women. You don't want anyone to think that you feel bad - even though you might.

My father taught me how to fight when I was 5.

I don't want to sound like a whiner here, but if you get beat up all the time, it affects you.

How come nobody in Bollywood has sleepless nights when a woman becomes a victim of abuse and is not able to work due to the trauma and ostracisation?

It is the most vicious of all crimes - to be abused by someone you had a relationship with! Because then you blame yourself.