“[The] Hopi earth does contain my roots and I am, indeed, from that land. Because the roots are there, I will find them. But when I find them, [my father] said, I must rebuild myself as a Hopi. I am not merely a conduit, but a participant. I am not a victim, but a woman.” DoeSaidEarthFatherLandRootsVictimParticipants Author:Wendy Rose
“Our Founding Fathers were proud that Americans were trusted with arms because they knew that only when people are armed could they truly be thought of as free citizens. And that's where the circle closes. Those who want to deprive you of your right to keep and bear arms are intending to deprive you of your freedom, period. Like the criminals their policies encourage, these elitists know that it is always best to disarm victims before you enslave them.” PeopleKnowsWantFatherPolicyArmsBearsProudCitizensPeriodsVictimCriminalsCirclesTrustedFoundingOur Founding FathersElitistYour Freedom Author:Charley Reese
“When I was little I knew my father had been an orphan and had lived in an orphanage. I was curious, but my father wouldn't satisfy my curiosity. He told only one story about the orphanage, and that was of sneaking out and buying candy, which he sold to other orphans. He said he had a pretty good business going - till he was busted! I guess he told that anecdote because he was the hero of it and I suspect he was rarely the hero as a child, more often the victim. There's a photo of the actual orphanage on my website, and you can see it's a forbidding looking place.” ChildrenLittlesSaidStoriesFatherHeroVictimCuriosityCuriousBuyingSuspectsCandyWebsiteOrphanAnecdotesGood BusinessOrphanageBustedSneaking Out Author:Gail Carson Levine
“As we try to change, we will discover within us a fierce struggle between our loyalty to that battle-scarred victim of his own childhood, our father, and the father we want to be. We must meet our childhood father at close range: get to know him, learn to forgive him, and somehow, go beyond him.” KnowsWantTryingChildrenFatherStruggleChildhoodStyleIdentityBattleOur ChildrenVictimForgivingLoyaltyRangeFierceOur FatherLearn To ForgiveParenting Styles Author:Augustus Napier
“Since so many people these days don't seem to start their families until around age forty, I predict there will be less child beating, but more slipped disks from lifting babies out of cribs. Even the father of advanced age who's not inclined to spare the rod is likely to suffer more than his victim: The first punch he throws might well be the last straw for his rotator cuff, reducing his disciplinary options to mere verbal abuse and napping.” PeopleFirstsWellsChildrenHumorSeemsMightAgeFunnyLastsSufferingFatherBabyAbuseVictimMereThese DaysFortySparesReducingLiftingStrawsDiskCuffsVerbal Abuse Book:The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee Source: The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
“There is a perversion, much practised in Hollywood movies, that might be called sado-paternalism, whereby a surrogate father treats a gifted but difficult pupil with derision and constant punishment. The aim is to bring out the best in the victim and to make him into a he-man or...a he-woman.” MenMightFatherDifficultHe ManHollywoodTreatsAimVictimConstantPunishmentGiftedPupilsPerversionHollywood MoviesSurrogatesDerisionPaternalism Author:Philip French
“My father died at 42, of a heart attack. My mother was 32 then. She never wanted to be a victim. And that really resonated as a nine-year-old child. And one of the most revealing things was, very soon after my father died - he was in real estate and he owned some modest buildings - they came to my mother, the men that worked for him, and they said, "You don't have to worry. We will run the business and we will take care of you." And my mother said, "No, you won't. You will teach me how to run the business and I will take care of it and my children."” MenYearsHeartChildrenSaidRealCareRunningWantedMotherFatherTeachWorryBuildingHe ManDiedVictimTake CareNineMy ChildrenModestEstatesThey SaidRevealingNine YearsHeart AttackFather DiedMy Father Died Author:Sherry Lansing
“We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.” WorldWayMadeHappensFatherResponsibilityHusbandOvercomingResponsibleVictimTraumaOver YouMy HusbandAnything Can HappenVictimizationGetting Over YouGet Over YourselfAbusive FatherBad Husband Author:Camille Paglia
“Love is rather impotent and pitiful: My father must have told me a million times how much he loved me, but that emotion - assuming it was even real - hardly had the strength to counter the many other acts of wrong he committed against me. Contrary to romance novels and the love-conquers-all mentality that even those of us who grow up in an era of divorce are - in response to some atavistic instinct - still raised to believe, love is always a product and a victim of circumstances. It is fragile and small.” BelieveStillsRealRomanceFatherGrowsLove IsEmotionMillionsNovelGrowing UpProductsCircumstancesVictimAssumingInstinctResponseRaisedCommittedDivorceContraryConquerErasFragileMentalityRomance NovelPitifulBelieve In LoveLove Conquers AllVictims Of Circumstance Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel
“I'm pro-choice because I've never been a fourteen-year-old incest victim pregnant by her father, or a woman who's going to die if the pregnancy continues, or a rape victim, or even a teenager who made a mistake. I want women to have choices, but I also believe that it's a life, especially once it's big enough to live outside the womb.” IfsWantYearsBelieveMadeEnoughBigsDiesChoicesFatherMistakeVictimTeenagerPregnancyPregnantWombMade A MistakeFourteenI Want A Woman Author:Laurell K. Hamilton
“Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.” WarFatherLosesSonHusbandVictimFeministPrimariesCombatVictims Of War Author:Hillary Clinton
“Fury is an entirely appropriate response to a system that sends young people to kill other young people in a war that never should have been waged. Yet the American Right is forever trying to pathologise anger as something menacing and abnormal, dismissing war opponents as hateful and, in the latest slur, "wild-eyed". This is much harder to do when victims of wars begin to speak for themselves: no one questions the wildness in the eyes of a mother or father who has just lost a son or daughter, or the fury of a soldier who knows that he is being asked to kill, and to die, needlessly.” PeopleKnowsShouldTryingHas BeensWarEyeYoungPoliticalMotherDiesFatherLostSpeakForeverSonDaughterShould HaveHarderVictimResponseSoldierOpponentsAppropriateFuryHatefulShould Have BeenAbnormalWildnessSlursVictims Of War Author:Naomi Klein
“But actual rapists, men who are usually known to (and often loved by) their victims? Men who are sometimes our sports heroes, political leaders, buddies, boyfriends and fathers? Evidence suggests we don't despise them nearly as much as we should.” MenShouldSometimesPoliticalFatherSportsKnownLeaderHeroEvidenceVictimDespiseBuddyPolitical LeadersSports Hero Author:Jaclyn Friedman
“Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.” SometimesFatherBrotherMonthsVictimTeethMy BrotherApologizingFury Author:Tatum O'Neal
“Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. Women often have to flee from the only homes they have ever known. Women are often the refugees from conflict and sometimes, more frequently in today's warfare, victims. Women are often left with the responsibility, alone, of raising the children.” ChildrenWarSometimesHomeTodayFatherPoliticsLeftLosesResponsibilityKnownSonHusbandConflictVictimPrimariesCombatWarfareRefugeeVictims Of War Author:Hillary Clinton
“Deeply saddened by the news of the terrorist attacks in central London, the Holy Father offers his fervent prayers for the victims and for all those who mourn.” FatherPrayerHolyOffersNewsVictimLondonTerroristMournTerrorist AttacksFerventSaddenedFervent Prayer Author:Pope Benedict XVI