Domestic Abuse Quotes

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

  Kato Kaelin

  People, Abuse, Want

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• One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it remains one of the invisible and under-recognized pandemics of our time.

  Nicole Kidman

  Women, Rights, Abuse

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• Fundamentally, if the league is going to have a no-tolerance policy for domestic abuse, if we're going to be a global organization that's going to have this as a perspective, we've got to back it up. We can't be backed into it with a video with more coming out. We have to make an affirmative stand on it.

  Steve Young

  Organization, League, Perspective

  "Steve Young Calls Out The NFL For Only Banning Ray Rice Because The Elevator Video Came Out" by Tony Manfred, www.businessinsider.com. September 08, 2014.

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  No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

  Salma Hayek

  Abuse, Domestic Violence, Against Violence

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• Domestic violence causes far more pain than the visible marks of bruises and scars. It is devastating to be abused by someone that you love and think loves you in return. It is estimated that approximately 3 million incidents of domestic violence are reported each year in the United States.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Pain, Love You, Emotional

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• 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

  Girl, School, Knowing

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• Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.

  Herbert Ward

  Children, Abuse, Domestic Violence

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• There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

  Bell Hooks

  Children, Addiction, Abuse

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• If you add up all the forms of genocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and domestic abuse, everything, we lose about 6 million humans every year just because they were born female. That's a holocaust every year.

  Gloria Steinem

  Sex, Years, Holocaust

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• We all like to think that if we were the victims of domestic abuse we'd up and leave - but it's not always as easy or straightforward as that. Women stay with abusive partners for all kinds of reasons - they love them, they fear them, they have children with them, they believe they can change them or they simply have no where else to go.

  Kate Thornton

  Children, Believe, Thinking

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• There's a ripple effect in being underpaid for women. Ten thousand women are turned down every day for domestic abuse shelters. Part of domestic abuse is often economic suppression; the male might take your paycheck every week and never give you money or allow you to work because he's too jealous.

  Patricia Arquette

  Jealous, Giving, Abuse

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• What happens to people living in a society where everyone in power is lying, stealing, cheating and killing, and in our hearts we all know this, but the consequences of facing all these lies are so monstrous, we keep on hoping that maybe the corporate government administration and media are on the level with us this time. Americans remind me of survivors of domestic abuse. This is always the hope that this is the very, very, very last time one's ribs get re-broken again.

  Inga Muscio

  Cheating, Lying, Heart

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• It feels as if childhood sexual abuse or domestic abuse of women in the home has increased but actually if you ask women of 60 or 70 years old, the incidence is about the same. We just didn't know it.

  Gloria Steinem

  Home, Years, Childhood

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Domestic abuse is wrong, but domestic retribution is okay.

  Dov Davidoff

  Abuse, Retribution, Okay

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jun 14, 2012

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• 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.

  Kerry Washington

  Ideas, Feelings, Abuse

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• 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.

  Kerry Washington

  Perspective, Abuse, Survivor

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• 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.

  Leslie Morgan Steiner

  Motivation, Inspiration, Long

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