Rescuing Quotes

"Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?"

Virginia Woolf

"Maybe what I need to be rescued from is the feeling that I don’t need to be rescued, for without a doubt this is the most difficult rescue of all."

Craig D. Lounsbrough

"In one way or another, every mission that I have ever set out on to rescue myself is yet another mission that I end up needing to be rescued from. Hence, there is God."

Craig D. Lounsbrough

"The day you find out who you are is when you look back and realize that it was never the words, rather your actions that defined you."

Shannon L. Alder

"I can confidently state that the greatest rescues in my life have occurred when I’ve been saved from myself."

Craig D. Lounsbrough

"so often victims end up unnecessarily prolonging their abuse because they buy into the notion that their abuser must be coming from a wounded place and that only patient love and tolerance (and lots of misguided therapy) will help them heal."

George K. Simon

"Woman! Come out! I have—" She looked down at the bloodless grass, embarrassed. "I have come to rescue you," she finally said, as if admitting that she were covered in boils."

Catherynne M. Valente, In the Night Garden