Molestation Quotes

“Along with the trust issues, one of the hardest parts to deal with is the feeling of not being believed or supported, especially by your own grandparents and extended family. When I have been through so much pain and hurt and have to live with the scars every day, I get angry knowing that others think it is all made up or they brush it off because my cousin was a teenager. I was ten when I was first sexually abused by my cousin, and a majority of my relatives have taken the perpetrator's side. I have cried many times about everything and how my relatives gave no support or love to me as a kid when this all came out. Not one relative ever came up to that innocent little girl I was and said "I am sorry for what you went through" or "I am here for you." Instead they said hurtful things: "Oh he was young." "That is what kids do." "It is not like he was some older man you didn't know." Why does age make a difference? It is a sick way of thinking. Sexual abuse is sexual abuse. What is wrong with this picture? It brings tears to my eyes the way my relatives have reacted to this and cannot accept the truth. Denial is where they would rather stay.”
― Erin Merryn, Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness

“I think repressing what happened is what saved me in my childhood. I was able to use my imagination to create happy events, but a little girl can carry only so much on her own.”
― Erin Merryn, Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness

“No, Sky. You didn't tell her everything…you told you everything. Those things happened to you, not to someone else. They happened to Hope. They happened to Sky. They happened to the best friend that I loved all those years ago, and they happened to the best friend I love who’s looking back at me right now.”
― Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

“Each night I am nailed into place
and forget who I am.
Daddy?
That's another kind of prison.
It's not the prince at all,
but my father
drunkeningly bends over my bed,
circling the abyss like a shark,
my father thick upon me
like some sleeping jellyfish.
What voyage is this, little girl?
This coming out of prison?
God help -
this life after death?”
― Anne Sexton, Transformations

“I should meet many people who do not know anyone personally who has been raped or molested as a child. But I can't remember seeing a newspaper without a rape or molestation charge in it somewhere, and when I ask groups how many people know someone personally with a history of molestation, almost always, every hand in the room goes up.”
― Anna Salter, Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders

“In all the interviews I have done, I cannot remember one offender who did not admit privately to more victims than those for whom he had been caught. On the contrary, most offenders had been charged with and/or convicted of from one to three victims. In the interviews I have done, they have admitted to roughly 10 to 1,250 victims. What was truly frightening was that all the offenders had been reported before by children, and the reports had been ignored.”
― Anna Salter, Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders

“My goal in going public was not to put my extended family to shame, or to get back at Brian for abusing my sister and me; rather, my mission was to give a face and voice to an epidemic that society stays hushed about.”
― Erin Merryn, Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness

“Think twice before you pull your trouser and rape a woman; she may be your mother, sister or friend, and you know the consequences that follows.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“But sometimes, when she'd be all by herself, walking home late in the evening on a crowded street she'd be afraid of her own shadow following her...”
― Sanhita Baruah

“The child gives, because the body can, and the mind of the violator cannot.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Convincing someone to have sex is the same as manipulation and does not actually count as getting consent.”
― Shahla Khan, Friends With Benefits: Rethinking Friendship, Dating & Violence

“If a woman is harassed, it is because she asked for it? She dressed for it? She walked for it? She spoke for it? I would like to challenge that.”
― Fatima Mohammed, Higher Heels, Bigger Dreams

“Nothing is more beautiful than freedom, and nothing more grotesque than its molestation.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“If you think you can't, you won't. If you think you can, you will.”
― Linda Ward

“The world which worships Mother Mary and goddess Durga also has experienced such heinous crimes against her daughters.”
― Debajani Mohanty, The Curse of Damini

“If lawmakers in nations today refused to be bribed and be corrupted by some larger-than-life leaders, the people will be less insulted and molested by ungodliness and injustice.”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

“Women are prone to every molestation in society, right from human rights to animal rights”
― Sir P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar