Domestic Abuse Quotes

Domestic Abuse Quote of the day

I want people to realize that the domestic abuse charges happened in 1989. I didn't meet any of them until 1993.

Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence.

Whenever I talk to survivors [of a domestic abuse relationship] who have lived through that and are on the other side and their whole perspective on life is a complete 180, I'm just so inspired.

From what I've been told, the scariest part of being part of a domestic abuse relationship is the idea that you cannot escape and you cannot get help, that feeling of being stuck.

Domestic abuse is wrong, but domestic retribution is okay.

...Studies have found that children who witness abuse are more likely to accept relationships that are abusive.

It is essential that children who are directly or indirectly affected by domestic violence receive psychological care.

To tell a tale so great as to tear the soul inside out"Sara Niles, Torn From the Inside Out

When Bill Burke asked my mother out, she experienced the unluckiest day of her life. Diana (to become my high school sweetheart-and wife) agreeing to go out with me was the luckiest day of my life.

Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships

I can no longer stay quiet in this world, I have a voice and I feel it reverberate off my internal walls, making its slow climb upward until its melody can be heard all around.

You couldn't not notice the bruise on the side of her face. Or the hickey under her chin.

Domestic abusers and the abused need to develop healthy support systems...

Clouds of confusionrolled into illusionHe veils perversionforcing her coercionHer body he takeswhile she flies awayunbelievable, she's invisible

Society has seldom considered the vicarious effects of domestic violence between partners on the lives of children.

Domestic violence rarely affects only those directly involved in the abusive relationship.

Everybody's good when they're good, darling. You don't judge a person by that. It's how they act when things aren't good that tells you who they really are.

I forgot to supannoyancefrom his glass full ofmingled dread and rageNow let me takea small draught of solacefrom my own little cupfull of predicaments!From the poem- Draught

Unfortunately, you are far more likely to be harmed or die prematurely as a direct result of modern society than you are from any form of terrorism.

Men who hit do so because they can...someplace they enjoy or need to humiliate another. There is no love in violence, only control and domination.

Last night I dreamt Moses and I were rowing underwater.We could breathe and talk to one another.We rowed past schools of fish and sea anemones and Moses named them for me.”—Jules Finn

Suspicion of Abuse gets to your toes before you see it in your face.

his abusemakes her an anvilwithout spark

Sounds of depression remembering rejection Hope turns to despair black roses everywhereKeep hearing echoes voices in my mind repeating endless lies evil in disguise

She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead.

Domestic terrorism is alive and well in the USA and it is masquerading as “Progress”.