Top 100 Abuse Domestic Quotes

#1. There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

Bell Hooks

Abuse Domestic Quotes #564688
#2. When we hear these kinds of excuses from a drunk, we assume they are exactly that - excuses. We don't consider an active alcoholic a reliable source of insight. So why should we let an angry and controlling man be the authority on partner abuse?

Lundy Bancroft

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1424022
#3. The underlying attitude comes bursting out of his words: He believes his wife is keeping something of his away from him when she doesn't want intimate contact. He sees sexual rights to a woman as akin to mineral rights to land - and he owns them.

Lundy Bancroft

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1449944
#4. There is life after abuse. This is mine.

Lindsay Fischer

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1408976
#5. Children have rights outside their mother's womb without having to be victim's of Domestic Violence inside their mother's womb.

Sheree' Griffin

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1392179
#6. It is seldom that domestic violence is an isolated episode; rather it is comprised of a number of episodes over an extended period of time.

Asa Don Brown

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1388532
#7. She looks in the mirror
seems vaguely familiar
like steam on the glass
shame covers her past
the fog slithers down
as evil surrounds.

Diana Rasmussen

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1376740
#8. This is not love. It is a crime ... You can't look the other way just because you have not experienced domestic violence with your own flesh.

Salma Hayek

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1373041
#9. An abuser isn't abusive 24/7. They usually demonstrate positive character traits most of the time. That's what makes the abuse so confusing when it happens, and what makes leaving so much more difficult.

Miya Yamanouchi

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1358350
#10. How I wish, how fervently I ache, to take my mother's hand, kiss her check,tell her I love her, and watch her smile. For me it was not, nor can ever be. But for you, reach out now. Reach out for your mother's hand-the hands of those you love. Say I love you.
Don't wait.

M.J. Burke Sr.

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1349309
#11. Sounds of depression
remembering rejection
Hope turns to despair
black roses everywhere

Keep hearing echoes
voices in my mind
repeating endless lies
evil in disguise

Diana Rasmussen

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1347727
#12. Being alone is better than being your whore.

Lori Jenessa Nelson

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1322584
#13. Even child abuse specialists do not routinely screen for domestic violence. This shows how much more education we need to do, even among experts, to understand the known links between violence of the child and the parent.

Jocelyn Brown

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1314916
#14. Don't play his game. Play yours.

Rachel Caine

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1287015
#15. Before I can give myself to another I first must give me to myself. Once I know the value of self, I then can allow another to share in my wealth.

Elizabeth Cook-Howard

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1255057
#16. To imply that domestic abuse is only inflicted against women by men is at best, ill informed, and at worst, intentionally deceptive. To acknowledge domestic violence against men does not diminish the injustices suffered by women. In fact, it gives men and women common cause to go forward together.

Mark Greene

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1226855
#17. Domestic violence rarely affects only those directly involved in the abusive relationship.

Asa Don Brown

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1189617
#18. When Bill Burke asked my mother out, she experienced the unluckiest day of her life. Diana (to become my high school sweetheart-and wife) agreeing to go out with me was the luckiest day of my life.

M.J. Burke Sr.

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1169620
#19. Nine out of ten Afghan women will experience domestic abuse in some form,

Jenny Nordberg

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1164624
#20. I can no longer stay quiet in this world, I have a voice and I feel it reverberate off my internal walls, making its slow climb upward until its melody can be heard all around.

Elin Stebbins Waldal

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1154850
#21. We sat still, our breathing loud and rhythmic, its music melancholy, a traditional song of sorrow.

Margot McCuaig

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1085841
#22. Many of the seminal social issues of our time - poverty, lack of education, human trafficking, war and torture, domestic abuse - can track their way to our theology of, or beliefs about, women, which has its roots in what we believe about the nature, purposes, and character of God.

Sarah Bessey

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1065820
#23. You couldn't not notice the bruise on the side of her face. Or the hickey under her chin.

Rainbow Rowell

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1020776
#24. Use the darkness of your past to propel you to a brighter future.

Donata Joseph

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1020375
#25. Domestic abuse is wrong, but domestic retribution is okay.

Dov Davidoff

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1009576
#26. Smothered by control
a tormented soul
trapped in his castle
Her tears rolling mist
proof she exists
in Snow White Darkness.

Diana Rasmussen

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1001819
#27. A pastor who counsels an abuse victim to:
- Submit to her husband
- Pray harder, or
- Be a better wife
can't help her. She should not feel guilty about looking elsewhere for help.

Caroline Abbott

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1680692
#28. He loved me and he beat me. I loved him and I took it. It's as simple as that, and as stupid and complicated. It's terrible. It's like knowing someone you love is dead but not having the body to prove it. He loved me. I know it.

Roddy Doyle

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1870103
#29. A man or a woman can't be defined by the pain inflicted in them by others or by someone else's issues, but by their own character and actions.

Linda Alfiori

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1833297
#30. When a partner isolates their spouse from friends, associates, and public places, it's called domestic abuse. When it's done to an entire gender, it's called feminism.

Helen Smith

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1827671
#31. I want people to realize that the domestic abuse charges happened in 1989. I didn't meet any of them until 1993.

Kato Kaelin

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1792615
#32. Partner psychological abuse encompasses nonaccidental verbal or symbolic acts by one partner that result, or have reasonable potential to result, in significant harm to the other partner.

Donald W. Black

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1767373
#33. Perhaps you expected to feel great as soon as you escaped your abuser, and maybe you did feel a great sense of relief for a while. However, as time has passed, you may be dismayed by the extent of your emotional pain.

Caroline Abbott

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1767138
#34. Truth: Rape does indeed happen between girlfriend and boyfriend, husband and wife. Men who force their girlfriends or wives into having sex are committing rape, period. The laws are blurry, and in some countries marital rape is legal. But it still is rape.

Patti Feuereisen

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1762392
#35. More and more leaders around the world are joining the struggle. More and more individuals understand that any abuse of any woman is intolerable.

Asha-Rose Migiro

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1741226
#36. It feels as if childhood sexual abuse or domestic abuse of women in the home has increased but actually if you ask women of 60 or 70 years old, the incidence is about the same. We just didn't know it.

Gloria Steinem

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1698636
#37. We are a society of excuses, shame and blame; we avoid accountability and often project our responsibility when involving domestic violence.

Asa Don Brown

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1695575
#38. I am living in hell from one day to the next. But there is nothing I can do to escape. I don't know where I would go if I did. I feel utterly powerless, and that feeling is my prision. I entered of my own free will, I locked the door, and I threw away the key.

Haruki Murakami

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1691451
#39. Each year, I pick something new to learn. One year, it was learning how to knit, and I got 'The Sweethearts' Knitting Club' out of the experience. Another year, it was to volunteer at the local domestic abuse shelter, and I ended up volunteering there for three years.

Lori Wilde

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1681814
#40. What does War, Murder, Genocide, Violence, Abuse, Rape, Domestic Violence, Violence Against Women & Children
Have In Common? Everything ... they all help destroy precious lives!

Timothy Pina

Abuse Domestic Quotes #995561
#41. We can all do something to help end domestic violence. A Real Man would never abuse his partner or children, and I am proud to put my name to the Women's Aid Real Man campaign.

Ricky Whittle

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#42. Domestic abuse, also called intimate partner violence, is the systematic suffocation of another person's spirit.

Joanna Hunter

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1642184
#43. To friends and family: Look beyond a bruise for signs of domestic abuse of a loved one. We

Janie McQueen

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1640364
#44. From what I've been told, the scariest part of being part of a domestic abuse relationship is the idea that you cannot escape and you cannot get help, that feeling of being stuck.

Kerry Washington

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1611847
#45. Society has seldom considered the vicarious effects of domestic violence between partners on the lives of children.

Asa Don Brown

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1607316
#46. Suspicion of Abuse gets to your toes before you see it in your face.

Auliq Ice

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1576345
#47. As tears fall from her face
she begins to sway
Love shouldn't hurt this way.

Diana Rasmussen

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1562627
#48. ...Studies have found that children who witness abuse are more likely to accept relationships that are abusive.

Asa Don Brown

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1557129
#49. Simon leveled the gun at Will again. 'Now,' he said casually, 'someone's gonna die here in the next minute.'
On the other side of the two-way mirror, Sammy took aim.
'That's exactly right,' she whispered.

Jenna Brooks

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1554405
#50. Above all, he loathed men who beat women; for, real men didn't exercise their strength on frail creatures, they joined the army and put Shazaria's enemies in their graves.

A.H. Septimius

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1540999
#51. It's important that you don't continue to ignore or accept rages. Realize that extreme rage directed at you or your children is verbal and emotional abuse. Even if you think you can handle it, over time it can erode your self-esteem and poison the relationship. Seek support immediately.

Randi Kreger

Abuse Domestic Quotes #1493891
#52. Be aware of children who may be living in a domestically violent home.

Asa Don Brown

Abuse Domestic Quotes #252794
#53. She counts the tiles on the
cold bathroom floor
lays her secrets out like stones
square by square
tile by tile
she doesn't feel anymore.

Diana Rasmussen

Abuse Domestic Quotes #437446
#54. Domestic abusers and the abused need to develop healthy support systems...

Asa Don Brown

Abuse Domestic Quotes #421290
#55. A domestic violence advocate can help you discern your level of risk from your abuser and whether you should get a civil restraining order.

Caroline Abbott

Abuse Domestic Quotes #388027
#56. I forgot to sup
annoyance
from his glass full of
mingled dread and rage
Now let me take
a small draught of solace
from my own little cup
full of predicaments!
From the poem- Draught

Munia Khan

Abuse Domestic Quotes #381614
#57. As a matter of policy from the beginning with our team, there have been three things we've said we won't draft a player: if they've been involved in domestic violence, drug abuse, or if they show lack of respect for authority.

Bob McNair

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#58. My hands twitch as they tremble and every nerve and muscle in my body is frozen - numb.

J. Kahele

Abuse Domestic Quotes #352365
#59. We're number one in domestic violence homicides. We also have a high rate of alcohol abuse and drug abuse and there's a high lethality rate when you get those factors involved, so the shelter has 52 beds, certainly it is never empty.

Diane Birch

Abuse Domestic Quotes #352047
#60. When people conclude that anger causes abuse, they are confusing cause and effect. Ray was not abusive because he was angry; he was angry because he was abusive. Abusers carry attitudes that produce fury.

Lundy Bancroft

Abuse Domestic Quotes #328395
#61. Domestic violence is frequently excused when alcohol and other substances are involved.

Asa Don Brown

Abuse Domestic Quotes #304293
#62. Clouds of confusion
rolled into illusion
He veils perversion
forcing her coercion
Her body he takes
while she flies away
unbelievable, she's invisible

Diana Rasmussen

Abuse Domestic Quotes #277022
#63. To tell a tale so great as to tear the soul inside out
Sara Niles, Torn From the Inside Out

Sara Niles

Abuse Domestic Quotes #255905
#64. Whenever I talk to survivors [of a domestic abuse relationship] who have lived through that and are on the other side and their whole perspective on life is a complete 180, I'm just so inspired.

Kerry Washington

Abuse Domestic Quotes #254900
#65. Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.

Herbert Ward

Abuse Domestic Quotes #439733
#66. While I didn't grow up in a family where there was domestic violence I knew of families in my neighbourhood where abuse was happening. I wanted to be part of the Women's Aid Real Man campaign to send out the message that real men don't abuse their partners or their children.

Huey Morgan

Abuse Domestic Quotes #237712
#67. That was the truth sometimes. Sometimes, a woman's freedom all came down to money.

Molly O'Keefe

Abuse Domestic Quotes #237607
#68. his abuse
makes her an anvil
without spark

Munia Khan

Abuse Domestic Quotes #228190
#69. Threatening a current or former partner isn't passion, or love, or heartache. It's violence, it's abuse and it's a crime.

Miya Yamanouchi

Abuse Domestic Quotes #188018
#70. The greatest domestic terrorists in the USA are either working for the corporate government or are funding it.

Steven Magee

Abuse Domestic Quotes #138296
#71. Sure relationships include arguments, but pain is not a side-effect of love.

Tyler Oakley

Abuse Domestic Quotes #136274
#72. Marriage,love and commitment does not give a man permission to act like Julius Caesar by pushing his partner into sexual promiscuity like a concubine for his own sexual pleasures.

Sheree' Griffin

Abuse Domestic Quotes #77822
#73. Preliminary research-most of it published outside the medical literature-indicates that a significant number of our patients have experienced some form of violence and abuse during their lifetime, including elder abuse, child abuse, gang-related violence, sexual abuse, and domestic violence.

David Schneider

Abuse Domestic Quotes #68544
#74. Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

Abuse Domestic Quotes #61661
#75. Emotional abuse is like being continuously kicked in the shins. It can be worse than getting one punch in the face, and it cements itself.

Ashley Banjo

Abuse Domestic Quotes #37009
#76. Power breeds responsibilities, in international affairs as in domestic
or even private. To dodge or disclaim these responsibilities is one form of the abuse of power.

Irving Kristol

Abuse Domestic Quotes #22047
#77. i would like everyone to post stories on DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS everyday on this page and keep everyone updated because everyday is DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS DAY and networking in helping others against this abuse and helping to save lives

Robert D. Boyd Jr.

Abuse Domestic Quotes #605956
#78. She seems somewhat morose and out of sorts. Do you beat her often?'
'I must admit that I do not.'
'There is the answer! Beat her well; beat her often! It will bring roses to her cheeks! There is nothing better to induce good cheer in a woman than a fine constitutional beating.

Jack Vance

Abuse Domestic Quotes #978094
#79. If you add up all the forms of genocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and domestic abuse, everything, we lose about 6 million humans every year just because they were born female. That's a holocaust every year.

Gloria Steinem

Abuse Domestic Quotes #956525
#80. His hands struck her any hour of the day, like hands that strike a clock, whether early, whether late; they strike, they strike.

Anthony Liccione

Abuse Domestic Quotes #921962
#81. It is essential that children who are directly or indirectly affected by domestic violence receive psychological care.

Asa Don Brown

Abuse Domestic Quotes #905684
#82. I know victims of domestic abuse. I know what it takes for people to get out, and I also know why people stay. It's heartbreaking.

Paddy Considine

Abuse Domestic Quotes #879732
#83. It's still hard for me to talk about the day I visited a shelter for children who were victims of a domestic-violence household. The kinds of abuse they had suffered, and what it had done to them physically and emotionally ?- I don't have words for what I saw. This has to stop.

Michael Dean Crapo

Abuse Domestic Quotes #820734
#84. One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it remains one of the invisible and under-recognized pandemics of our time.

Nicole Kidman

Abuse Domestic Quotes #793882
#85. . . . my father had been brutal on me, but with him out of my life I had in turn become tough on myself. I knew enough about the game to be a pro but had never learned to have fun at it.

Patrick O'Sullivan

Abuse Domestic Quotes #756804
#86. Emotional abuse is any type of abuse that is not physical in nature. It can include everything from verbal abuse to the silent treatment, domination to subtle manipulation.

Beverly Engel

Abuse Domestic Quotes #713040
#87. Domestic violence is any behavior involving physical, psychological, emotional, sexual or verbal abuse. It is any form of aggression intended to hurt, damage, or kill an intimate person.

Asa Don Brown

Abuse Domestic Quotes #693463
#88. Your husband's abuse of you feels "normal" to him. A goal of a abuser treatment program is to teach a healthier normal for the relationship.

Caroline Abbott

Abuse Domestic Quotes #612595
#89. Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar.

Samuel Griswold Goodrich

Abuse Domestic Quotes #994394
#90. The dog leash was still tied tight around the oak tree in the back, stretched worn and limp across the green grass as if trying to escape to freedom; and he buried his wife without a tombstone. Where before, she sat most times in his home, licking her wounds.

Anthony Liccione

Abuse Domestic Quotes #596531
#91. His recording career spans just a decade: Rude was silenced by drug abuse and domestic tragedy at the end of the '70s.

Jonathan Lethem

Abuse Domestic Quotes #594490
#92. The effects of abuse are devastating and far-reaching. Domestic violence speaks many languages, has many colours and lives in many different communities.

Sandra Pupatello

Abuse Domestic Quotes #583125
#93. We know of officers who develop inappropriate relationships with victims of domestic abuse. They have ignored their professional duty and their moral responsibility.

Theresa May

Abuse Domestic Quotes #566134
#94. This October, we renew the fight against domestic violence and abuse in America. Together, we can eliminate domestic violence from homes across the country and ensure that our children grow up in healthy, peaceful communities.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

Abuse Domestic Quotes #554120
#95. I wanted to take part in this campaign because it's so easy to forget the many women who live their lives in fear because of domestic violence. Men have an important role to play in sending out the message that real men do not hurt or abuse their partners.

Ian Somerhalder

Abuse Domestic Quotes #546406
#96. His worst fantasy her reality
he pulls the strings
does unspeakable things
A sadistic entrance
for his acceptance

Diana Rasmussen

Abuse Domestic Quotes #537513
#97. Stop looking for that person you were in the past. She has changed. Look for the person she has grown into. She is wiser and stronger than than ever before. Don't go back to who you were. Cherish who you are." --Without a Voice by Chris Pepple

Chris Pepple

Abuse Domestic Quotes #531445
#98. Men who hit do so because they can...someplace they enjoy or need to humiliate another. There is no love in violence, only control and domination.

Na'ama Yehuda

Abuse Domestic Quotes #508312
#99. It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that theyre going on.

Julian Assange

Abuse Domestic Quotes #466644
#100. My mother's story continues to haunt me, it will until the day I die. My guilt and personal anguish is a good thing. It propelles me to strive to become the man my mother wanted me to be.

M.J. Burke Sr.

Abuse Domestic Quotes #441838

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