Quotes About Abuse

Salander was the woman who hated men who hate women.

I consider myself a feminist. My whole life has been about standing up for women, for anybody really, who's been abused.

Young women growing into situations with no parents are usually material for exploitation in the brothels.

The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.

You don't have to beat a woman if you can make her feel guilty.

Every time he raised his hands on her. He killed a prince from a fairy tale somewhere deep within her heart, brutally.

Threatening a current or former partner isn't passion, or love, or heartache. It's violence, it's abuse and it's a crime.

I can't even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars.

You know what my grandmother said, eventually: 'When a man beats you, he doesn't like you. He has women issues and it starts probably with their mothers.' And I said 'You're probably right.'

The stated mission at the time was simply to use the influence of the entertainment industry to do an accurate portrayal of drug and alcohol abuse. We all admit that we're not trying to censor anybody.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

I stayed because it was normal. After the first hit, you don't think they're going to do it again. And it does escalate, but I stayed because it became normal. I didn't call the police because I didn't want them to go to jail and it just was normal.

My stepfather was a very nasty individual.

It's funny, because there are so many stereotypes out there about actors and movie stars in general, but I've had a great opportunity to meet a lot of them, and maybe it's just because they don't behave that way around me, but I rarely see that kind of abuse of power.

Experience has shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

People who like to hurt you can always tell you why it's your fault.

Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.

Language is power that gets abused all the time, Robin, but we've got real enemies out there somewhere and until they're out of the picture, I won't get knotted up over people who don't get all the words right. It's a waste of energy.

People abuse for no reason, because they can do it anonymously. There's a lot of negativity, criticism and hatred as an artist grows.

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.

Men don't sexually assault women because they are lustful; they do it because they want to dominate, humiliate and abuse women. They do it because they view women as objects.