Quotes from Anna J. Michener

Self-abuse is shockingly common, especially among people who have been conditioned to believe that they are to blame when things go wrong.

I didn't think my mother was even consciously aware of what she was doing. She had convinced herself more than anyone else so that she would not feel the insufferable guilt that comes when you realize you have abused and betrayed your own children.

I am not the property of the people who bred me. I am not the prisoner of the people with fancy psychiatric lingo in their heads and no love for me in their hearts.