Quotes About Being Physically Abused

#1. I grew up in a school system ... where nobody understood the meaning of learning disorder. In the West Indies, I was constantly being physically abused because the whipping of students was permitted.

Harry Belafonte

#2. My wife is my best friend. The thought that people are afraid to go home to their partners for fear of being abused physically or emotionally makes me feel sick. It's not easy but you need to get help and get out.

Shane Filan

#3. Writing is a business and should be practiced as such. On days when you think you can't possibly write a line you do it anyhow.

Henry Denker

#4. We use the word "respect" to mean something a women shows a man, but not often something a man shows a woman.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#5. Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#6. When you don't give money, it shows that you have the devil's nature.

Benny Hinn

#7. Domestic violence does not only happen to adults. Forty percent of girls age 14 to 17 report knowing someone their age who has been hit or beaten by a boyfriend, and approximately one in five female high school students reports being physically and sexually abused by a dating partner.

Dianne Feinstein

#8. DOING THE DONKEY WORK

Alexander McCall Smith

#9. Thing to act. Act with thought. -The Pythian Scrolls.
Through the Oracle's Mist

Aedan Byrnes

#10. But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted.

Mercedes Ruehl

#11. Doubt is a powerful tool. Doubt challenges my beliefs and breaks the spell of all the lies and superstitions that control my world. I use doubt to recover faith in myself, to take my power back from every superstition I believe in, and return that power to myself.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#12. I am not really breaking any rules. Charlie said I could never take another step through the door again ... I came in through the window ... Still, the intent was clear, said Edward.

Stephenie Meyer

#13. We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

Anatole Broyard

#14. I privilege the music over the lyrics.

Duncan Sheik

#15. Mother, when was this coffee dripped?" Ignatius demanded, flapping into the kitchen again.
"Just about a hour ago. Why?"
"It certainly tastes brackish.

John Kennedy Toole