Gloria Steinem Quotes About Abuse

Quotes about: Abuse

• If you add up all the forms of genocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and domestic abuse, everything, we lose about 6 million humans every year just because they were born female. That's a holocaust every year.

  Gloria Steinem

  Sex, Years, Holocaust

• But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child -- a true self who is waiting.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Unique, Self

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.98, Open Road Media

• It feels as if childhood sexual abuse or domestic abuse of women in the home has increased but actually if you ask women of 60 or 70 years old, the incidence is about the same. We just didn't know it.

  Gloria Steinem

  Home, Years, Childhood

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Sadomasochiasm - which we know very well doesn't exist in societies that don't have child abuse - is regarded some sort of natural sexual expression.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Expression, Abuse

  Source: www.pbs.org

• when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.

  Gloria Steinem

  Pain, Believe, Abuse

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.99, Open Road Media

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