#victims

Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12. ↗

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

#children #domestic #during #experience #female

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves. ↗

— Betty Friedan

#fellow #men #real #real enemy #themselves

Children who are victimized through sexual abuse often begin to develop deeply held tenets that shape their sense of self: 'My worth is my sexuality. I'm dirty and shameful. I have no right to my own physical boundaries.' That shapes their ideas about the world around them: 'No one will believe me. Telling the truth results in bad consequences. People can't be trusted.' It doesn't take long for children to being to act in accordance with these belief systems. For girls who have experienced incest, sexual abuse, or rape, the boundaries between love, sex, and pain become blurred. Secrets are normal, and shame is a constant. ↗

— Rachel Lloyd

#children #incest #love #pain #rape

A sociopath is one who sees others as impersonal objects to be manipulated to fulfill their own narcissistic needs without any regard for the hurtful consequences of their selfish actions. ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#narcissism #r-alan-woods #sociopaths #victims-of-narcissists #abuse

To my abusers: I forgive you. ↗

— Pattie Mallette

#justin-bieber #loving #pain #pattie-malette #suffering

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#co-dependence #divorce #idealism #idealists #marriage

It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims. ↗

— Judith Butler

#cannot #historically #jews #legitimately #now

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#forces #historical #history #merely #nor

We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#across #barely #earth #flames #look

On behalf of my native Japan, I am grateful to the culinary community and hospitality industry for working together to raise much-needed funds to aid the tsunami and earthquake victims. ↗

— Masaharu Morimoto

#am #behalf #community #culinary #earthquake