Domestic Violence Quotes - Page 4

• Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.

  Candice Bergen

  Men, Independence, Waste

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• ...those serpents! There's no pleasing them!

  Lewis Carroll

  Violence, Serpent, Alice Adventures In Wonderland

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.

  Salma Hayek

  Expression, Way, Against Violence

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• The Violence Against Women Act protects the lives of tens of thousands of domestic violence victims. But the U.S. must also support gender equality around the world, and that means acknowledging that some nations we consider to be our friends are no friends to women.

  Barbara Boxer

  Mean, Support, No Friends

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• The very definition of news is something that hardly ever happens. If an incident is in the news, we shouldn't worry about it. It's when something is so common that its no longer news - car crashes, domestic violence - that we should worry.

  Bruce Schneier

  Worry, Car, News

  Bruce Schneier (2014). “Bruce Schneier on Trust Set”, p.447, John Wiley & Sons

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• My niece was a sexual-assault victim. My sister is a survivor of domestic violence. We have more shelters for animals than for battered women. That's not the message we should be sending.

  Hilda Solis

  Niece, Animal, Messages

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• It's shocking that so many children still live in fear as a result of violence in the home, and don't know who to turn to for help and support. As a child survivor of domestic violence I can remember the fear and isolation. I'm delighted to support the Hideout, the new Women's Aid website for children and young people. I know it could have made a real difference to me and will provide great comfort and support to thousands of children.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Children, Real, Home

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• That's a very, very touchy subject, domestic violence. I think women don't realize is it's something that's very prevalent. It goes on, on a daily basis.

  LaToya Jackson

  Thinking, Goes On, Realizing

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• Women are the victims of war... as widows they've faced the trauma of being single parents and livelihoods of families are affected. A lot of gender-related problems come up in terms of health, education, domestic violence, etc.

  Kumari Jayawardena

  War, Women, Being Single

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• It can be really frightening for young people to see their parents fighting. Remember, you're not alone and there are people out there who can support you.

  Neil Buchanan

  Fighting, Support You, Remember You

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

  Herbert Ward

  Children, Abuse, Shadow

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• My mother and I are big domestic violence advocates.

  Brandon Marshall

  Mother, Violence, Bigs

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.

  Deb Caletti

  Water, People, Abuse

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Stay”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Domestic violence and violence against women in general seems to be a big problem everywhere in the world. It seems to me this problem comes from stress, pent up anger, frustration, and all kinds of negativity within human beings.

  David Lynch

  Stress, Frustration, Negativity

  "His Mission to Change the World Through Meditation". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.

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• Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.

  Phil Donahue

  Children, Appreciate, Parent

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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• I really wanted to support this campaign because I love heart shaped glasses. Seriously though, I've never hit anyone. I'm anti-violence full stop. Against women, against men, against animals. Against anything.

  Max Rushden

  Heart, Men, Animal

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• ...when a wife wouldn't testify, little punishment was meted out. Alex came to understand that only those who pressed charges ever became truly free, because the life they were leading was a prison, even if most of them wouldn't admit it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Punishment, Wife, Alex

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• Nobody believes that domestic violence kills and nobody believes it is detrimental to children. This world has got to wake up. To me, if there is domestic violence, if the children see it or hear it, that to me is detrimental. Batterers should not have rights to children.

  Denise Scott Brown

  Children, Believe, Rights

  "In their own words". www.cnn.com. December 20, 1996.

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• Whether low-income people are dealing with access to veteran's benefits, or a protective order to guard against domestic violence, or a way to guard against the loss of their home due to foreclosure and unscrupulous behavior by mortgage providers, there's no way they can afford a lawyer. And that's a serious problem. Because that erodes respect for law, it erodes the prospects for justice.

  Martha Minow

  Home, Loss, People

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• Yet, when child sex offenders are brought to justice and serve time for their offenses, they are often released into unsuspecting communities and left free to resume their sexual attacks.

  Bob Ney

  Sex, Children, Justice

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• As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Learning, Thinking, Long

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• Luke was a little boy in a growing body that felt pain and sadness and fear for his mum, and he always believed he would be safe with his dad.

  Rosie Batty

  Pain, Dad, Sadness

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• Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12.

  Lucille Roybal-Allard

  Children, Age, Female

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• After I became an attorney, the mother of two girls I'd known in high school came to see me. She'd endured years of heinous abuse from her husband that nearly destroyed her. I'd never suspected a thing.

  Harry Reid

  Girl, Mother, Husband

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