Quotes tagged ‘Neglect’

“If internalizers were shamed for their sensitive emotions during childhood, as adults they may be embarrassed to show any deep emotion. They may say “I’m sorry” when they start crying in a therapist’s office, as though they should be able to talk about their emotional pain without showing it. Some e…”

— Lindsay C. Gibson, amazon.com

“Most time I pretend I ain't even there. He don't know the difference.”

— Menno Meyjes, Celie, Whoopi Goldberg, imdb.com

“It's all messed up and it's always your fault. And you never get any of the love.”

— Francesca Gailes, Adam Starks, Jamal Turner, Brett Gray, imdb.com

“If George has something for himself, then he'll be so much happier. Everybody wants that. Our daughter, Margaret, and I have disappointed him. He blames me that she's a girl. But once I have this son for him, he'll have his heir and he'll love me.”

— Emma Frost, Isabelle Neville, Eleanor Tomlinson, imdb.com

“If you build it, they will come, and if they don’t, well, fuck ’em.”

— Niesha Davis, lennyletter.com

“You never ask me anything besides, ‘Does this feel okay,’ or ‘Do you like my skirt,’ ‘How much is your rent?’ You don’t want to know me. You want to come over in the night and have me fuck the dog shit out of you and then leave and write about it in your diary.”

— Lena Dunham, Adam Sackler, Adam Driver, imdb.com

“I was dumped into a cell without any medical attention or surgical attention whatever. My broken bones were not set. My ankles and legs were not put into a cast. The doctor never came near me and no one else was allowed to do anything for me. At the end of 14 months of constant agony, I was taken to…”

— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu

“You know, when we had that moment in the pub, I thought to myself, 'After 33 years, I'm finally having a real moment with my father.' Can't believe what a fool I was. There wasn't a shred of truth in that moment. You were lying the whole time. You were dying, you didn't say a word. All you had to do…”

— Shane Kosakowski, Franklin Hardy, Jimmy Shive-Overly, Chris Geere, imdb.com

“My mother, who died recently, never once told me she loved me never once.”

— Coleman Herbert, imdb.com

“I grew up like a neglected weed, – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Then I was not happy or contented.”

— Harriet Tubman, harriet-tubman.org

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”

— J. K. Rowling, amazon.com

“Thank goodness my education was neglected.”

— Beatrix Potter, amazon.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

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com