Quotes about domestic-violence
domestic-violence abuse faces
Many survivors insist they're not courageous: 'If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.' 'If I were courageous, I wouldn't be scared'...Most of us have it mixed up. You don't start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear. Laura Davies
domestic-violence may stones
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours. Eric Idle
domestic-violence demand persons
They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them. Jodi Picoult
domestic-violence finals patterns
I did not know that the first step in any domestic violence relationship is to seduce and charm the victim. I also did not know that the second step is to isolate the victim. The next step in the domestic violence pattern is to introduce the threat of violence and see how she reacts. We victims know something you [non-victims] usually don't. It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is to 'kill her'. Over 70% of domestic violence murders happens after the victim has ended the relationship. Leslie Morgan Steiner
domestic-violence violence serpent
...those serpents! There's no pleasing them! Lewis Carroll
domestic-violence trying situation
The time when domestic violence is the most lethal is when the person is trying to leave the situation. Julie Johnston