Anna Conference Quotes & Sayings

If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence. — William Feather

Are Child Molesters Really Just Victims Themselves?
"All victims are offenders," one professional challenged me at a conference, "and all offenders are victims. How does your work address that?"
My work doesn't address that because I don't believe there's any evidence for that assertion. Obviously, not all victims are offenders, but it is also likely that most offenders weren't victims. The studies that find a high proportion of child molesters who were victims of child sexual abuse themselves are almost always based on self-report, and even there, study results differ dramatically. Studies show the number of child molesters who were themselves molested as children ranges from 22 percent in some studies to 82 percent in others.[101] — Anna C. Salter

What is expected tends to be realized.

What you say to yourself about yourself in private is what you become — Marie Lenay Rogus

We cannot sense without acting and we cannot act without sensing. — Thomas Hanna

I want to look into a mirror that will love my own reflection harder than I hate myself. — Meggie Royer

And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe. — Apsley Cherry-Garrard