Abusive Women Quotes

#1. When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.

Kevyn Aucoin

#2. While it can be aggressive playing rugby, the aggression doesn't leave the rugby pitch. A Real Man doesn't need to use violence or be abusive to others, especially towards his partner and family. I am proud to support the Women's Aid Real Man campaign.

Danny Care

#3. Our culture encourages women to nurture men, making it predictable that many experience a seductive empathy for abusive men, as well as the misguided hope that love can obliterate an ugly past.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

#4. Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are not empowered economically; they depend on their husbands.

Joyce Banda

#5. You don't know how long I've wanted to feel worthy of that. To like myself. To be able to live with what I am."
"You don't have to live with yourself anymore. You live with me. Let me love you enough for both of us.

Pepper Winters

#6. People spend so much time wondering why the women don't leave. Where are all the people who wonder why the men are even abusive? Isn't that where the only blame should be placed?

Colleen Hoover

#7. Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.

Richard Ernst

#8. Anybody who has anything abusive to say of women, whether ancient or modern, can command a vast public in the popular press and a ready agreement from the average publisher.

Dora Russell

#9. Without financial literacy, divorce rates soar, families rupture, and women stay with abusive men for financial security. A lack of jobs contributes to riots and illegal activity. Name any situation and it goes back to money. We need to focus on poverty eradication.

John Hope Bryant

#10. 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

#11. Because the child does not have the power to withhold consent, she does not have the power to grant it.

Judith Lewis Herman

#12. I am done looking for love where it doesn't exist. I am done coughing up dust in attempts to drink from dry wells.

Maggie Young

#13. Women need total life support services for the mother as she and the family move through the crisis following disclosure.

Janis Tyler Johnson

#14. The No. 1 reason women stay in abusive relationships - because they're not able to take care of themselves financially. It's also the No. 1 reason why women go back.

Kerry Washington

#15. despair of ever making it out of slavery and the slum. Psychologists often see the same resistance to escaping in women who are in abusive relationships. They may live in fear and pain, but they refuse to leave the abuser because they are more fearful of the unknown.

Nick Vujicic

#16. Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there's no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners.

Kate Thornton

#17. When we understand love as the will to nurture our own and another's spiritual growth, it becomes clear that we cannot claim to love if we are hurtful and abusive. Love and abusive cannot coexist. Abuse and neglect are, by definition, the opposites of nurturance and care.

Bell Hooks

#18. Bound by Blood, Marked by the Dragonfly.

Lisa Akers

#19. The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race.

Adolf Hitler

#20. I'm not the same. How could I be the same?

Hilary T. Smith

#21. While I do not in any way mean to say that a woman should throw herself into a torturous or abusive situation, I do mean she must set for herself something in life that she is willing to reach for and therefore take risks for.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#22. Our history is a material history, not just a succession of thoughts or speech acts.

Andrew Shryock

#23. She'd never find another man like him as long as she lived. He was ruining her for any other, and the pleasure of it was beyond bearing.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#24. Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

John Selden

#25. Many television weather-women were one abusive parent away from prostitution.

Dov Davidoff

#26. In my state, two women who came to the U.S. as 'mail-order brides' were killed by abusive husbands. They had risked everything to come to this country, and it cost them their lives. We must let women know they have options.

Maria Cantwell

#27. It was hard to have a good crisis when real life kept asking to be lived.

Charlaine Harris

#28. The ultimate goal of a habit-forming product is to solve the user's pain by creating an association so that the user identifies the company's product or service as the source of relief.

Nir Eyal

#29. The room is in shocked silence. Can this really be true? Can the authorities kill off everyone at the press of a button?

Siobhan Davis

#30. Blessed the one who loves truth continually and has not lent his mouth as an instrument of impiety by lying, for he fears the commandment about idle speech.

Ephrem The Syrian

#31. At first, being a female role model really terrified me. But it hasn't turned out to be an awful burden. I get a lot of letters from women who tell me that, after watching Xena, they have bought the Harley-Davidson they always wanted or left an abusive relationship.

Lucy Lawless