Quotes tagged ‘Gaslighting’

“Baldwin: You're out of your mind. Joshua Foss: Me? Ha! I'm not the one paying some Neanderthal 40 million dollars to skate up and down a slab of ice.”

— Karen Elise Baldwin, Gene Quintano, Joshua Foss, Powers Boothe, imdb.com

“Connie: [shrieking at Michael] You killed my husband! You waited until our father died so nobody could stop you and you killed him! You killed him! You blamed him for Sonny, you always did, everybody did. But you never thought about me. You never gave a dam about me. What am I going to do now? Kay A…”

— Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, Kay Adams, Diane Keaton, imdb.com

“It's amazing, a woman with so many tools has so many screws loose.”

— Amy Mass, Mike Baxter, Tim Allen, imdb.com

“When a narcissist, sociopath or psychopath gaslights you, you may be prone to gaslighting yourself as a way to reconcile the cognitive dissonance that might arise. Two conflicting beliefs battle it out: is this person right or can I trust what I experienced? A manipulative person will convince you t…”

— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com

“Gaslighting allows perpetrators to evade accountability for their actions, to deflect responsibility and exercise their control over their partners with alarming ease.”

— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com

“It is those within medicine who have the ability—and bear the responsibility—to solve these problems. But particular in this #metoo moment, I believe there is enormous power in women sharing their stories. One thing I didn’t fully appreciate at the start of my research is just how much silence surro…”

— Maya Dusenbery, feministing.com

“That's what men do—they make you think you're crazy so that they can have their fun.”

— Ryan Murphy, Moira O'Hara, Alexandra Breckenridge, imdb.com

“Why are conscience-bound human beings so blind? And why are they so hesitant to defend themselves, and the ideals and people they care about, from the minority of human beings who possess no conscience at all? A large part of the answer has to do with the emotions and thought processes that occur in…”

— Martha Stout, amazon.com

“The intense charm of people who have no conscience, a kind of inexplicable charisma, has been observed and commented on by countless victims, and by researchers who attempt to catalog the diagnostic signs of sociopathy. It is a potent characteristic.”

— Martha Stout, amazon.com

“By the time she is thirty, the valiant little girl's "Ick!" - her tendency to respond, to rock the boat, when someone's actions are "really mean" - may have been excised from her behavior, and perhaps from her very mind.”

— Martha Stout, amazon.com

“Do not set her up to be gaslighted. When she observes that someone who is being really mean is being really mean, tell her she is right and that it is okay to say so out loud.”

— Martha Stout, amazon.com

“It’s the micro that makes the macro. I have been a victim of each component of the sexual assault spectrum of which you speak. They all hurt. And they are all connected to a patriarchy intertwined with normalized, accepted--even welcomed-- misogyny. We are not outraged because someone grabbed our as…”

— Alyssa Milano, twitter.com

“He spins gravity and twists and turns Her words until her world is tipped over Plunging over the edge of its own axis. In his realm, light is dark and peace is chaos He creates a dark room for her which she now calls shelter - comforted in the arms of her murderer.”

— Shahida Arabi, amazon.com

“Gaslighting exhausts a victim's internal resources so that they are unable to self-validate.”

— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com

“She and I ran in the same circles in college. I avoided those people [Dunham and her friends] like the plague because of their well-known racism. I’d call their strain ‘hipster racism,’ which typically uses sarcasm as cover, and in the end, it looks a lot like gaslighting — ‘It’s just a joke. Why ar…”

— zinziclemmons, twitter.com

“Gaslighting exhausts a victim’s internal resources so they are unable to self-validate.”

— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com

“As victims of psychological violence get closer to the precipice of truth, the man (or woman) behind the curtain creates a great deal of noise to divert their victims from ever seeing what is beneath the surface of their façade and grandiose claims of authenticity. The noise malignant narcissists cr…”

— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com

“Executed effectively and done chronically, gaslighting causes self-doubt and cognitive dissonance – a state of turmoil stirred by inconsistent attitudes and beliefs. Survivors of emotional predators sense that something is amiss, but when they attempt to address it, they are often blindsided by thei…”

— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com

“The erasure of the abuse was worse than the abuse. One of the most insidious things about gaslighting is the denial of reality. Being denied what you have seen. Being denied what you have experienced and know to be true. It can make you feel like you are crazy. But you are not crazy.”

— Ariel Leve, theguardian.com

“Gaslighting is a technique abusers use to convince you that your perception of the abuse is inaccurate.”

— Shahida Arabi, amazon.com