402 Quotes About Domestic-violence

She serves me a piece of it a few minutesout of the oven. A little steam risesfrom the slits on top. Sugar and spice -cinnamon - burned into the crust.But she's wearing these dark glassesin the kitchen at ten o'clockin the morning - everything nice -as she watches me break offa piece, bring it to my mouth,and blow on it. My daughter's kitchen,in winter. I fork the pie inand tell myself to stay out of it.She says she loves him. No waycould it be worse.

Domestic violence has often gone unnamed and unblamed in my society. It is the norm for men to teach their wives a lesson, and for the women to bear that beating and teaching with no complaints.

… he (the husband) would stand over her head and tell her there was no place else for her to go, no one wanted her and no one was coming for her rescue.Do you have any idea how bleak, how hopeless and terminal it sounds and feels to be at that point? I got chills just writing about it…

Choose to live, by choosing to leave.

William was the only one left in my life to talk to, but I could hardly discuss my boy troubles with the boy who was causing me troubles.

You can't force someone to love you.

I hated his eyes. And I had been right about one thing - they were mysterious.Only they hid things that I wished I'd never found out.

If you had treated me like most decent human beings would, I probably would have stayed of my own free will.

I ran away with him when I should have run from him.