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Quotes About Abuse

But when they don't wear helmets, they abuse the taxpayers, taking a couple of weeks to die in intensive care, their primitive brains jellied by hard impact with the concrete highway. Somebody has to pick them up when they go down and deliver them to Emergency, regrettably.
~ John D. MacDonald
He hadn't hit her in several years, but when you've been beaten you never forget it. The bruises go away but the scars remain, deep, hidden, raw. You stay beaten. It takes a real coward to beat a woman.
~ John Grisham
The human body was not meant for such abuse. After about six months they lost steam.
~ John Grisham
The human body was not meant for such abuse. After about six months they lost steam. They would cut back to fifteen hours a day, six days a week.
~ John Grisham
she would miss something important. The letters drained her. The lyrics put her to sleep. The novels produced migraines. The poetry could not be penetrated. She wrote back twice a week, without fail, because if she neglected her youngest by even a day or so, she could expect a torrent of abuse, a four-pager or maybe a five-pager with
~ John Grisham
This woman has had the hell beaten out of her.
~ John Grisham
I don't want you to describe to me—not ever—what you were doing to that poor boy to make him sound like that; but if you ever do it again, please cover his mouth with your hand.
~ John Irving
May God watch over your soul, which no man may abuse.
~ John Irving
Even before she started talking to Franny, I could see how desperately important this woman's private unhappiness was to her, and how—in her mind—the only credible reaction to the event of rape was hers. That someone else might have responded differently to a similar abuse only meant to her that the abuse couldn't possibly have been the same.
~ John Irving
raped her while he was living with them.
~ John Lescroart
Emotional abuse is like being continuously kicked in the shins. It can be worse than getting one punch in the face, and it cements itself.
~ Unknown
You survived the abuse, you're going to survive the recovery.
~ Mariska Hargitay
Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.
~ Aldous Huxley
Nothing can prepare you for living or working with a sociopathic serial bully. It is the most devastating, draining, misunderstood, and ultimately futile experience imaginable.
~ Tim Field
Enough of this occupation, terror and abuse. We are not in need of your help. We are able to combat and defeat terrorism, and achieve unity. We are not in need of your bases, your experience and etc.
~ Muqtada al Sadr
Do you feel like a man when you push her around? Do you feel better as she falls to the ground?
~ Unknown
I hate being lied to I hate being ignored & I hate being used.
~ Unknown
So what made you think you could just take a life and push it around? I guess to build yourself up so high, you had to take her, and break her down.
~ Keith Urban
I hate it when a guy knows you like him, and he abuses the privilege.
~ Unknown
When we as human beings, are trusted with life, but lack the value thereof, we are only left with one thing abuse!
~ Sunday Adelaja
God didn't create you just for you to be used, abused and treated wrong. Let go of anyone that doesn't respect you or care about you.
~ Unknown
Men are appalling.. We never really grow up, well not on the inside. It's all just an act. Don't ever trust men, we're dreadful. Enjoy us, use us, abuse us, but never trust us." - HAM
~ Unknown
Most people decide at some point that it is better … to be enthralled with what is impoverished or abusive than not to be enthralled at all and so to lose the condition of one's being and becoming.
~ Maggie Nelson
the rage she'd stored up back then would be all she'd need to keep her going now. Just long enough to unleash it on a worthless, abusive pig.
~ Maggie Shayne