1,745 Quotes About Abuse

The danger also sometimes took their trash out for them. The danger came over for movie night and bought them a popcorn maker for Christmas. The danger hugged her mother and shook her father’s hand.

I had run away with him when I should have run from him, and the mark that he left on me could not be so easily removed.

Leave him,” her friend Roberta told her over the phone. “You stay, he thinks he can get away with it.”“It ain’t that simple,” Desiree said. She glanced toward her baby’s room, touching her swollen lip. She suddenly imagined Stella’s face, her own but unbruised.“Why?” Roberta said. “You love him? And he loves you so much, he knocked your head off your shoulders?”“It wasn’t that bad,” she said.“And you aim to stick around until it is?

Empathy is not the same as approval. And explaining something is not the same as excusing it. But if you want to change people, if you want to reduce terrible things like domestic violence, first you need to understand that such monsters do not usually come out of nowhere. They are usually created, in a stream of abuse that can go back for generations.

My mother taught me to look each person in the eye as my equal. The thought that anyone would look me in the eye and consider me unequal fuels my will to fight the good fight.”-Shenita Etwaroo

It’s a sick irony that the top elite conservatives of the United States expect every single school child to recite a pledge that boasts freedom and justice for all, when they really only want it for themselves.”-Shenita Etwaroo

There are so many women suffering in silence, and, yes, men, too. There are so many men and women who are humiliated in their own homes, in front of their children. How are they ever supposed to develop an idea of what safety is?Shenita Etwaroo

Dissociation gets you through a brutal experience, letting your basic survival skills operate unimpeded…Your ability to survive is enhanced as the ability to feel is diminished…All feeling are blocked; you ‘go away.’ You are disconnected from the act, the perpetrator & yourself…Viewing the scene from up above or some other out-of-body perspective is common among sexual abuse survivors.

Domestic abuse is a form of communication fueled by personal insecurities, temperament, economic, educational or lack therein, physical and psychological conditions.