Top 42 Past Abusive Relationship Quotes
#1. I don't want to make music for people who don't care about music.
T Bone Burnett
#2. 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
#3. I do not think that a flight across the Atlantic will be made in our time, and in our time I include the youngest readers.
Charles Rolls
#4. My government is going to deal with all forms of corruption. White-collar corruption will be high on the list and we are going to plug all gaps that are being used by corrupt leaders (and) business people.
Jakaya Kikwete
#6. I choose what sort of relationship I want to have with my family of origin today.
Maureen Brady
#7. Mainly as sort of blueprints for dealing with most of the adults in their lives, to some extent with their fellows. It is this notion of aiming high and there's always hope, aim low and you might as well stop now.
Diana Wynne Jones
#9. To help the parents make the choice of which school to send their child to, I would insist that schools are graded on a simple basis that parents can understand, A through F. The way Florida is done.
Mitt Romney
#10. After my father died when I was seven and my mother entered into an abusive relationship, I shuffled between houses - staying with friends, families from church, and relying on the kindness of teachers and people throughout my community to help me grow up essentially without parents.
Ronnie Musgrove
#11. The first step in Overcoming domestic violence begins with recognizing you are in an abusive relationship.
Grace Crockett
#12. I don't really think it comes as a shock to every writer if somebody in their family is mad at them. Yes, it's very upsetting. But it's inherent in the process of trying to make sense of one's life, which is what I think is perhaps at the bottom of writing at all.
Anne Roiphe
#13. There's always something in it for the person who is allowing to be taken advantage of. - Psychotherapist David in Type 1 Sociopath
P.A. Speers
#14. It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him, if he ever reads this. But he was older, in the music business - or so he said.
Lisa Snowdon
#15. You don't have to take it anymore: Turn your resentful, angry, or emotionally abusive relationship into a compassionate, loving one / Steven Stosny.
Steven Stosny
#16. Small children and a gray-looking husband (they left the
Jojo Moyes
#17. Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and neglectful. Yet this elementary truth has not even begun to be considered in historical research; just stating that poor mothering lies behind wars seems blasphemous.
Lloyd DeMause
#18. It's never pretty when you leave an abusive and controlling relationship. The warden always protests when the prison gets shut-down.
Steve Maraboli
#19. In a verbally abusive relationship, the partner learns to tolerate abuse without realizing it and to lose self-esteem without realizing it. She is blamed by the abuser and becomes the scapegoat. The partner is then the victim.
Patricia Evans
#21. I loved 'Dungeons & Dragons'. That was actually a good cartoon to me.
Jim Rash
#22. I realized the preserving a relationship at all costs was not as important as affirming the human right to be free from abusive treatment.
Rebecca Ann Parker
#23. Domestic violence rarely affects only those directly involved in the abusive relationship.
Asa Don Brown
#24. Man, I wish God wasn't starting to shake us up like this. Wouldn't it just be easier to care about stuff like dinnerware, golf, school uniforms, and getting to that new resturant that just opened?
Lisa Samson
#25. It is easy to imagine situations where we sacrifice both freedom and safety at the same time: when we enter an abusive relationship or vote for a fascist. Similarly,
Timothy Snyder
#26. You fall in and out of love, but when you really love someone ... it's forever.
Sophie Kinsella
#27. Learn to say to the abuser in a firm voice, "Stop it." Do not explain yourself, your needs, or what you mean. Simply call a halt to the abuse, and let that be your final word.
Caroline Abbott
#28. Win through your actions, never through argument.
Robert Greene
#29. As he had kissed her neck, she could not repress the feeling she was a lamb making time with a wolf.
Thomm Quackenbush
#30. In many shamanic societies, people who complain of being disheartened ... or depressed would be asked, ... When did you stop dancing? ... This is because dancing is a universal healing salve.
Gabrielle Roth
#31. And we're at four. Alexis Ann, I think we're in an abusive relationship.
Melissa A. Craven
#32. Because every exchange is always a relationship, to get the most while giving the least is unjust, unethical, antisocial, abusive, perhaps 'evil.' Yet predatory commerce ("the free market" as it is euphemistically called) operates regularly on the principle of 'get the most and pay the least.
James Hillman
#33. An abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively.
Joe Biden
#34. The bottom line was that I was in an abusive relationship.
Shannon Celebi
#35. I again invoke my favorite analogy for eating disorders: abusive lovers. And what do you do when someone is in an abusive relationship? You don't allow visitation rights, weekly dates. You don't put them in the vicinity of or let the abuser flirt with them. You keep them the fuck away.
Kelsey Osgood
#36. 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
#37. i can't tell if my mother is
terrified or in love with
my father it all
looks the same
i flinch when you touch me
i fear it is him
Rupi Kaur
#38. An abusive relationship should be easy to identify though often one of the most difficult to end.
Desmond Tutu
#39. Addiction does not cause partner abuse, and recovery from addiction does not "cure" partner abuse.
Lundy Bancroft
#40. 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
#41. When someone comes up to me and says, 'Mary, you helped save my marriage', or, 'Mary, you helped me get out of this abusive relationship', I'm in it, really in their lives. And I'm so passionate about my feelings, but also about showing people the way through theirs.
Mary J. Blige
#42. I grew up with an extremely abusive father. As a mother, I wanted to protect my own children from exposure to violence. When I found out one of my daughters was in an abusive relationship, it broke my heart. Finally, she left him ?- but only after his abuse started spreading to the children.
Ginny Brown-Waite
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