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...think it's very courageous for a survivor to let her name and face be attached to this crime, and doing so makes it easier for other survivors. But it's still too difficult for a lot of survivors, still too much of a stigma attached, especially in acquaintance rapes, where they are so often blamed unfairly for participating in what happened...
Crucial to recovery is the act of breaking the silence. "It's very important for the survivor to tell at least one other person," says Laura Davis, co-author of The Courage to Heal, the text used most often by incest survivors attempting to recover. "They don't have to tell the whole world if they don't want to." But by speaking out even a little, survivors hope they can break the cycle of shame and prevent the next generation from suffering...
...survivor of incest long past. Somehow it is all too easy to forget those things that traumatized the soul. The phantom woman in the night reminds me. Everything I do in life revolves around working out the problems created by that woman in the night who long ago terrorized an innocent child...
...Irish underclass wish to be black! And how it must have tempted Parker, who in his recent films (Mississippi Burning, Come See the Paradise) has told America what to think about racial issues, to insert a lecture during the break. Here, though, the big drama is whether soul survivor Wilson Pickett will show up at the band's big gig. The picture could be half an hour shorter or twice as long -- and that would be just fine, because The Commitments runs on rough charm and roadhouse melody. The film offers no message, no solutions, only a great time...
Almost every page of the old wife's tale is lit up with the everyday magic of a world in which birds can sound like women crying and sweaters are knit in the memory of spider webs. Yet all the storybook marvels are grounded in a survivor's vinegar wit ("In Nanking, snow is like a high-level official -- doesn't come too often, doesn't stay too long"). And in front of the watercolor backdrops are horrors pitiless enough to mount a powerful indictment against a world in which women were taught that love means always having...