#1 Dating Tip: Make Sure Your Date has a Conscience!

— P. A. Speers

31. The human body seems indestructible when we are young. However, it is incredibly fragile and must be care for if it is to serve us for a lifetime. Too often, the abuse it takes during early years (from drugs, improper nutrition, sporting injuries, etc.) becomes painful handicaps during later years.

— James C. Dobson

About a month after she found out about that, I got pregnant for the first time. I knew I didn't want to have a baby at all, and wanted to get an abortion. But the day I found out, I wasn't sure what to do first. I felt alone and lost and needed someone to call who I could tell. I needed help. Furthermore, I wasn't sure if she would talk to me again so soon after what had happened. Furthermore, I decided to take a chance and try calling her. When I told her, she said, "Well, an abortion is only like $500, so go turn a couple of tricks and get it taken care of," before she hung up on me. I probably should have called someone else, but I didn't know who else to call.

— Ashly Lorenzana

Abstaining from sex, hitting the books, and wearing loose-fitting clothes are common ways that girls try to molt their "slutty" image. But more often their shame leads them to self-destructive behavior. They become willing to do things that they wouldn't have dreamed of doing before they were scandalized because they now feel they have so little to offer. Some girls do drugs or drink to excess in an attempt to blot away their stigma. Others become depressed and anorexic. And others think so little of themselves that they date boys who insult or beat them.

— Leora Tanenbaum

Abuse? Ah. Such problems, even with time, do not go away on their own. They must be addressed. André Chevalier

— Nikki Sex

Abuse and respect are diametric opposites: You do not respect someone whom you abuse, and you do not abuse someone whom you respect.

— Lundy Bancroft

Abuse can take many forms. It always involves a boundary violation, although every boundary violation is not necessarily abuse.

— Adelyn Birch

Abuse counselors say of the abusive client: “When he looks at himself in the morning and sees his dirty face, he sets about washing the mirror.

— Lundy Bancroft

Abuse grows from attitudes and values, not feelings. The roots are ownership, the trunk is entitlement, and the branches are control.

— Lundy Bancroft

Abuse is a parasite that feeds off hate and shame, growing in size and strength with silence.

— Nikki Sex