#profession

Ritualised child sexual abuse is about abuse of power, control and secrecy. Ten years ago many people found it difficult to believe that fathers actually raped their children, yet survivors of such abuses spoke out and eventually began to be listened to and believed. Ritual abuse survivors, when they try to speak out about their experiences, face denial and disbelief from society and often fear for their lives from the abusers. ↗

— Laurie Matthew

#child-abuse #childabuse #childhood-abuse #mental-health-professionals #rape

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#bad #book #disgrace #many #politics

I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to take each day, each mission, as it came. That's an attitude I've carried into my professional life. I take each case, each job, as it comes. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#came #carried #case #casualties #comes

Professional writers write to fit ↗

— Pamela Glass Kelly

#write #writers #inspirational

Professionalism is like love: it is made up of the constant flow of little bits of proof that testify to devotion and care. Everything else is pretension or incompetence. ↗

— Tomislav Šola

#heritology #museology #museum #professionalism #šola

When families observe a later, deeper stage of cult involvement they may find it necessary to consider the involvement of a professional such as myself in an intervention effort. ↗

— Rick Ross

#cult #deeper #effort #families #find

My profession has helped me to grow up. ↗

— Ziyi Zhang

#grow up #helped #me #profession #up

My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues. ↗

— Robin Yount

#coached #conner #contracts #gone #high

I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee. ↗

— Bella Abzug

#because #before #began #coffee #establish

Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#here #journalists #like #maligned #much