“Gaslighting is a technique abusers use to convince you that your perception of the abuse is inaccurate.”— Shahida Arabi, amazon.com
“It's impossible to describe the trauma of being the child of an abusive mason. But it's twenty years later and I'm still shitting bricks.”— TokyoCalling, reddit.com
“Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively.”— Bell Hooks, amazon.com
“But the forces of evil have not abdicated. The malevolent ghosts of hatred are resurgent with a fury and a boldness that are as astounding as they are nauseating: ethnic conflicts, religious riots, anti-Semitic incidents here, there, and everywhere. What is wrong with these morally degenerate people…”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“Life is short. You can’t let anyone abuse you, you can’t let anyone be crazy on you.”— James Altucher, thoughtcatalog.com
“When someone rejects us, no matter how they abuse our love, we hope against reason that somehow they will come back to us.”— Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson, amazon.com
“Just remember that abusive words directed towards someone's mind, heart and soul can hurt just as much, if not more than abusive hands.”— The Clarty Plodger, twitter.com
“The longer that you keep abuse in your life, the more likely you are to think that you deserve it. You don’t. The people in life should unconditionally respect you and have nothing but your best intentions at heart. If they don’t, don’t make them a priority.”— Sara Li, thoughtcatalog.com
“You have to believe that you’re better than the fountain of abuse that’s been spewing hurt and pain at you. You just are.”— Sara Li, thoughtcatalog.com
“Life is too fragile to settle for a partner who is abusive, for a connection that is one-sided, for being with someone who sucks the energy and happiness from you on a daily basis. You are a person of value. You deserve care. You deserve respect.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“So, to say Obama is progress is saying that he’s the first black person that is qualified to be president. That’s not black progress. That’s white progress. There’s been black people qualified to be president for hundreds of years. If you saw Tina Turner and Ike having a lovely breakfast over there,…”— Chris Rock, vulture.com
“That’s what almost relationships are. It’s this invisible abuse we don’t even see affecting us. It’s half love when humans were designed to take in whole love. It’s the kisses and sex and physically and emotionally attached to someone who doesn’t respect you enough to even text you back, because wel…”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“Desperate daters rationalize bad treatment. When you are desperate for love you’ll take a lot of gruff. In fact, you often don’t even notice the poor treatment because acknowledging that you’re being treated badly is the first step down the road to walking away.”— eHarmony Staff, eharmony.com
“Abuse leaves a person emotionally handicapped, unable to maintain healthy, lasting relationships without some kind of intervention.”— Joyce Meyer, amazon.com
“Healing from psychopathic abuse is a long journey. It is neither linear nor logical. You can expect to swing back and forth between stages, perhaps even inventing a few of your own along the way. It is unlike the traditional stages of grief, because you have not truly lost anything—instead, you have…”— Jackson MacKenzie, amazon.com
“It is a myth that abusers simply can’t ‘help it.’ Narcissists could easily take the same energy they use in controlling their public image or manufacturing chaos in their relationships and apply it to controlling their behavior in private, behind closed doors. They choose when and where it is "safe"…”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“The truth is, a victim of abuse rarely consciously ‘chooses’ to be in an abusive relationship – often, they ‘choose’ a partner who treats them very well in the beginning – the false mask that the abuser portrays. When the victim is sufficiently hooked into the relationship and invested, that is when…”— Shahida Arabi, amazon.com
“You’re tone-deaf to verbal abuse. Many unloved daughters experienced put-downs, disparagement, and verbal aggression in their childhoods and all too often, they have either internalized these messages as true or have somehow come to think of them as ‘normal.’ This is especially true if the daughter…”— Peg Streep, blogs.psychcentral.com