White Witch in a Black Robe Quotes

“I am hyper alert to people turning away from me. I have a perennial sense of being an outsider.”
― Wendy Hoffman, White Witch in a Black Robe: A True Story About Criminal Mind Control

“The concentration camps were a laboratory for the Nazis. They put the minorities and intellectuals in there because the general population wouldn't mind losing those people. The Nazi leaders knew people needed targets for their own self-hatred.”
― Wendy Hoffman, White Witch in a Black Robe: A True Story About Criminal Mind Control

“As an adult, it shatters me that the child parts of my mind froze at those ages, didn't develop, and continued to believe the outrageous deceptions the abusers used on me.”
― Wendy Hoffman, White Witch in a Black Robe: A True Story About Criminal Mind Control

“I wanted my mother to love me. Despite all the torture and brutality.”
― Wendy Hoffman, White Witch in a Black Robe: A True Story About Criminal Mind Control

“Scientists, doctors, and trained ordinary citizens use drugs and torture to render children machines that do others' bidding. The commands these perpetrators put in the victims are called "programming".
They take an isolated, barricaded piece from one stream in the mind and another and another and sometimes tie them together at the bottom and twist them together and tell them to act but not remember.”
― Wendy Hoffman, White Witch in a Black Robe: A True Story About Criminal Mind Control

“I imagine everyone wears layered masks, and parades around a variety or panoply of false selves depending on the occasion.”
― Wendy Hoffman, White Witch in a Black Robe: A True Story About Criminal Mind Control

“To psychotherapists, I say, don't just leave us abandoned because you think you don't know enough to help us, or because the world doesn't believe in what we went through, or because our trauma is too awful to hear about.”
― Wendy Hoffman, White Witch in a Black Robe: A True Story About Criminal Mind Control

“Had I not been dissociative, I never would have survived.”
― Wendy Hoffman, White Witch in a Black Robe: A True Story About Criminal Mind Control

“This book is not for the delicate or for people who are convinced the world is fine just the way it is.”
― Wendy Hoffman, White Witch in a Black Robe: A True Story About Criminal Mind Control

“I never had the ambition to do what clinicians call "integrate". Many clinicians think that until your mind comes into one piece, then you have not healed. But I don't care that much about what the experts say.”
― Wendy Hoffman, White Witch in a Black Robe: A True Story About Criminal Mind Control

“I imagine everyone wears layered masks, and parades around a variety or panoply of false selves depending on the occasion. Normal people do that out of their own insecurities and ambitions. Mind-controlled people are hollow because their minds were taken away from them. Their controllers instruct these shells of people about what to do and when. Theirs is institutionalized, manufactured falsity.”
― Wendy Hoffman, White Witch in a Black Robe: A True Story About Criminal Mind Control

“know as I swim that I have large pieces of me not yet healed, and I do not feel ready for this joining. Better for all the disparate parts to be completely healed first. But even if I had used all my strength and resources, even if I had gritted my teeth and dug my heels in, even if I had screamed "No," I would not have been able to stop this rip tide. It happens, and I am carried afloat on a major wave of reuniting and melding. All survivors of this kind of abuse will have their own rhythm and order to their joining.”
― Wendy Hoffman, White Witch in a Black Robe: A True Story About Criminal Mind Control

“I leave the message that you can break away from the inheritance of murder, rape, evil, the greed of violence. That you have a choice, that the enemy is not insurmountable. That there is anyway some protective help in life.”
― Wendy Hoffman, White Witch in a Black Robe: A True Story About Criminal Mind Control

“I see individuals whose lives have been so protected that they seem like pearls nestled in velvet jewelry cases. I cannot empathize.”
― Wendy Hoffman, White Witch in a Black Robe: A True Story About Criminal Mind Control

“People don't make decisions within these sorts of groups. They try to avoid more torture. Then they are tortured into thinking they made a decision of their own free will.”
― Wendy Hoffman, White Witch in a Black Robe: A True Story About Criminal Mind Control