#erie

Those who support such survivors of abuse often find it difficult to hear the reality of those survivors' lives and experience and are often unsupported themselves. Rather than being supported, workers are often ridiculed, castigated or accused of being gullible or of giving the survivor false memories. Many workers work in isolation and a climate of hostility and are unable to talk about the work they do. Yes, despite all the odds, survivors of ritual abuse are beginning to speak out about their experiences, and some people, mainly in voluntary organisations, are beginning to listen to them and support them. [Published 2001] ↗

— Laurie Matthew

#child-abuse #childabuse #childhood-abuse #false-memories #healing

I am sincere, ma petite, even when I lie. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#anita-blake

I just can’t comprehend, that you, Borge, of all people, couldn’t keep your mouth shut. ↗

— Steen Langstrup

#scandinavian-mysteries #world-war-ii #world-war-ii

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#ability #almost #also #apparent #beings

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#experience #insubstantial #only #tangible #theories

Experience has taught me that you have to improve all the time-little bit by little bit-and not keeping starting everything from new. ↗

— Jean Alesi

#everything #experience #improve #keeping #little

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#expectations #experience #founded #images #memories

It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#convenient #described #distinguish #experience #kinds

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. ↗

— Woody Allen

#death #experience #impossible #objectively #still

When you're the spokeswoman for a weight-loss program, everything is witnessed. I weigh in once a week with a witness. I have to sign an affidavit saying I cannot have any surgeries. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#any #cannot #everything #i #once