Battered Women Quotes

#1. I represent an affluent district, but when I worked to form my county's first battered-women's shelter, some nights there were no beds left. Violence against women crosses all economic lines.

Lynn Woolsey

#2. Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.

Gloria Steinem

#3. My niece was a sexual-assault victim. My sister is a survivor of domestic violence. We have more shelters for animals than for battered women. That's not the message we should be sending.

Hilda Solis

#4. Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn't make it right.

B.J. Novak

#5. In a shelter meant for battered women, there were only two reasons a person would decide to leave. One, she had decided to launch out on her own and begin a new life. Or two, she had decided to go back to someone who had hurt her.

Deborah Bedford

#6. The great tragedy in the new feminist theory in America is the loss of a sense of public commitment ... Hungry women are not fed by this, battered women are not sheltered by it, raped women do not find justice in it, gays and lesbians do not achieve legal protections through it.

Martha C. Nussbaum

#7. I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.

Ann Rule

#8. The moment you let your courage leave you, you turn to an abandoned old house!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. I know that it's important to thank those who help with research, so thank you very much to Google. I couldn't have done it without you.

Suzanne Wright

#10. There's no battered woman alive who didn't know in advance that the man was bad.

Laura Schlessinger

#11. The mining industry might make wealth and power for a few men and women, but the many would always be smashed and battered beneath its giant treads ...

Katharine Susannah Prichard

#12. Men, crumpled like bed-sheets in hospitals,
And women, battered like overused proverbs.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

#13. It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people.

E.B. White

#14. The truth remains quiet inside us,floundering like a battered bird,desperately wanting to spread its
wings and fly away.
-TARA

Amita Trasi

#15. There are lots of love stories here," she says. "They either end happily, or everyone dies." She laughs, but it sound more like a sob. "What else is there, right?

Lauren DeStefano

#16. People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#17. In their quest to hit cloud Nine, our young men and women in
their prime are gradually finding themselves on ground Zero,
emotionally battered, academically bankrupt and medically
paralyzed.

Oche Otorkpa

#18. Men, permitted to put words (and other things) in women's mouths, create scenes in which women desperately want to be bound, battered, tortured, humiliated, and killed.

Catharine MacKinnon

#19. An artist's work is one long conversation with life.

Marty Rubin