Quotes About A Battered Woman

#1. When I went kayak surfing in Cornwall, I got a really deep gash on my hand - it looked like I had a slug on it - so I went to Harley Street for surgery, because I looked like a battered woman when I was making things on Blue Peter.

Konnie Huq

#2. Every woman who has come to consciousness can recall an almost endless series of oppressive, violating, insulting, assaulting acts against her Self. Every woman is battered by such assaults - is on a psychic level, a battered woman.

Mary Daly

#3. There is power in understanding the journey of others to help create your own

Kobe Bryant

#4. She was the type who chased, who danced into your life like a spring storm, and left you battered and quaking in the wake.

Katherine McIntyre

#5. her bathroom, likely not to surface for a while. She had agreed to

K.A. Linde

#6. He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.'
Gothos' Folly

Steven Erikson

#7. In the warm night air, everything seemed warm to Rishi, which led to the logical conclusion that BT would probably be warm too, which suggested the polite course of action of helping BT out of his clothes.

Shukyou

#8. The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.

Michel Houellebecq

#9. The gods had vanished, her mother had once claimed. But had they? Had it been some god who had visited tonight, clothed in the skin of a battered young woman?

Sarah J. Maas

#10. In the depths of the moor, the peat may be seen riven like floes of ice, and the rifts are sometimes twelve to fourteen feet deep, cut through black vegetable matter, the product of decay of plants through countless generations.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#11. A battered wife is a married woman until she gets a divorce. Or until she kills the bastard.

John Grisham

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

Laura Schlessinger

#13. I had arrived at that well-known portion of the story where Ethelred, the hero of the Trist, having sought in vain for peaceable admission into the dwelling of the hermit, proceeds to make good an entrance by force. Here,

Edgar Allan Poe

#14. Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.

John Ortberg

#15. We are so lucky to live here, he would say, and she couldn't disagree. They were lucky that the earth had conspired to heap up such startling beauty in one place, and they were lucky that it hadn't all fallen apart yet in a a geological catastrophe.

Chris Adrian

#16. One of the saddest things in the world is to see a cynical young person.

Maya Angelou

#17. She's beautiful - broken and battered, still the most beautiful woman in the world to me - the only woman in the world for me.

Elizabeth Finn

#18. In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.

Patrick Modiano

#19. I've got enough money to live me two lifetimes so I don't have to do nothing I don't want to.

John Lee Hooker

#20. I love you like the woman I am now. Not the girl I was. I'm battered and bruised and I'm tougher, but I'm still here. I'm scared to death, but I'm more frightened of a life without you.

Amy Andrews

#21. There are battered husbands. Apparently this happens when the woman is real big, the man is very small, and they each drink a quart of whiskey a day.

George Carlin

#22. Their leader wore a Nazi helmet and had renamed himself Heimlich in honor of the man who ran the SS, not knowing he'd confused the Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choke victims and Heinrich Himmler.

William Kotzwinkle

#23. 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

#24. In the philosopher, on the contrary, there is absolutely nothing impersonal; and above all, his morality furnishes a decided and decisive testimony as to WHO HE IS, - that is to say, in what order the deepest impulses of his nature stand to each other.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#25. I'm not out here on the front lines trying to create clones, or consumers, or worshippers of who I am, and what I do. I'm trying to nurture the idea that you should do your own thing, which is really powerful.

Mike Vallely

#26. As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it

Horace