Quotes About Abuse

You can't breathe for sheer revulsion when you keep finding the bodies of women with bamboo poles thrust up their vaginas. Even old women over 70 are constantly being raped.

There's no battered woman alive who didn't know in advance that the man was bad.

We discussed relationships, abuse, divorce and more. In our society, women have no outlet for these things. The only outlet is the church. And the church can't handle everything. I saw a gap.

The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.

I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.

There's a long, long history of women suffering abuse, injustice, and not having the same opportunities as men, and I think that's been very detrimental to the human race as a whole.

When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.

Violence against women and girls is one of the most systematic and widespread human rights violations.

The No. 1 reason women stay in abusive relationships - because they're not able to take care of themselves financially. It's also the No. 1 reason why women go back.

I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

Female sexuality is presented in our culture as a male fantasy, which doesn't include the reality of the abuse, the pleasure, the pain, the power, the complexity of women's sexuality.

When we hear a story of the abuse of a child or the abuse of women almost all people are appalled by instances of that kind.

anybody who has anything abusive to say of women, whether ancient or modern, can command a vast public in the popular press and a ready agreement from the average publisher.

Many television weather-women were one abusive parent away from prostitution.

The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place.

Violence toward women isn't cultural; it's criminal.

I understand the lifelong scars born by women who are victims of assault and abuse.

Men use women sexually. They use them, mistreat them, even from the point of view of vocabulary, the use of words. It baffles me.

These women [abused by Donald Trump] certainly do have seen the statute of limitations expire. But if he attacks these women, they can allege defamation of their own .

I read Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them and I found frightening pieces that related to…my own life.

Violence is a common part of far too many women's lives.

There is female-on-male spouse abuse. There are women who hit their husbands. But there must have been something that caused that because otherwise it wouldn't have happened.

Workers are actually being starved on the largest military base in Baghdad, and women are being raped with impunity - and because it doesn't fit into a Hollywood context it's not going to fly.

Bullshit," Salander said again. "Gottfried isn't the only kid who was ever mistreated. That doesn't give him the right to murder women. He made that choice himself. And the same is true of Martin.