The dead have a way of becoming saints in the eyes of their survivors.
Young girls come up to me all the time to ask for advice. They see me as a survivor.
In terms of 'Saving Face,' I was inspired by the stories of survivors who didn't let their attacks stop them from pursuing justice and seeking treatment.
It's about realizing, painfully, you've kept that voice inside yourself, locked away from even yourself. And you step back and see that your jailer has changed faces. You realize you've become your own jailer.
It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.
For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course.
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.
I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor.
Survivors told me that sleep was a great escape from the nightmare that was Jonestown. I also longed for bedtime each night at Escuela Caribe; sleep allowed me to forget where I was for a few hours.
I feel like I have a Ph. D. in life, I'm a survivor. I've not only survived, I've thrived.
Women are not just victims; they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability.
Just as there are predatory birds, so there are predatory ideas: I came under their spell. . . . Just as the survivors say that no one will ever understand the victims, what I must tell you is that you will never understand the executioners.
Sometimes, Ms. Lane," he said, "one must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is.
Survivors are cooperators. In order to survive in anything we need others to cooperate with or partner with.
There are no heroes on the battlefield, my lady; there are only survivors.
Hi, I'm Bill. I'm a birth survivor.
My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.
By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.
The remains of great and good men, like Elijah's mantle, ought to be gathered up and preserved by their survivors, that as their works follow them in the reward of them, they may stay behind in their benefit.
It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors.