Abusive Environment Quotes

I intend to start on shelter homes, and turn them into women's liberating centers, where women not only get therapy and food, but also training on how to become autonomous. These programs would be designed especially for Muslim women, because there are no programs at all. They tend to go to the shelter for a while and then go back to a very abusive environment and then they come and go again.

My only memories of school are of being beaten, of being hit in the playground, of masters poking their fingers in my chest all day.

Home wasn't a pleasant place to live, growing up.

Well, I had the most appalling childhood.

I didn't have a happy childhood.

I grew up in a very toxic home.

My childhood was the worst thing on earth. I'm very lucky to have gotten out of that, but I spent 15 years of my life being so incredibly emotionally abused.

Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.