402 Quotes About Domestic-violence

These secrets are not secrets per se but are truths hidden from public view. I had to write this book. There had to be a reason I survived to tell this story.

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

We all know the protocol. But more powerful than our protocol is our grooming to believe in something more.

It's ironic that it was not until I lost my hearing that I finally found my voice. Sign language saved my soul.

Progress or lack of it, can only be judged by a measuring rod, and if the rod is placed low enough the standard will never threaten you

Life is definitely about taking chances, living every minute with zeal, and then laying back and regretting nothing.

Physical aggression by a man toward his partner is abuse, even if it happens only once. If he raises a fist; punches a hole in the wall; throws things at you; blocks your way; restrains you; grabs, pushes, or pokes you; or threatens to hurt you, that’s physical abuse. He is creating fear and using your need for physical freedom and safety as a way to control you.

Never believe a man’s claim that he has to harm his partner in order to protect her; only abusers think this way.

The underlying attitude comes bursting out of his words: He believes his wife is keeping something of his away from him when she doesn’t want intimate contact. He sees sexual rights to a woman as akin to mineral rights to land—and he owns them.