I keep wondering how to explain the experience of child abuse from the inside. I'm going to try to explain what my world was like when I was sexually abused. The thing you have to remember is that this was the thinking of a child.

I, quite frankly, am grateful for every day. I don't take anything for granted.

There's no operation where you can have your anger cut out. But if you work on yourself, as you get better, you'll be more capable of seeing others as flawed human beings. That makes it easier to forgive.

People think that if [their abusive] parent apologizes, he'll turn into the person they needed him to be. He won't. An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

I think I have some interesting things to say and I don't think anybody out there is saying them.

When you go out on a limb, that's when you really know you're living

So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village.