American - Actress | November 5, 1963 -
I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.
Tatum O'Neal
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I've overcome physical and mental brutality - and fought back.
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I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.
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I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.
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I've triumphed over addiction.
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My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.
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Paper Moon didn't bring me love.
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Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them.
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The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.
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Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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