Joyce Banda Quotes

I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.

But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.

I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.

More than a victim, I am a survivor of a dehumanization process.

The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.

Not all forms of abuse leave bruises.

I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.

A lot of people deal with things that are bad. Once you've been through something, you grow from it and you take a lot in. You can always turn it into something positive.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me.

I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.

Looks like she's been slapping the kid again.

My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.

So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.

I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!

I've had just about everything punched. I've had things grabbed that just shouldn't be grapped.

You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.

I was physically abused and I retaliated.

There was mental and physical abuse in my family.

Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.

What's good about talking about being victimized is that it is the beginning of being able to stop it.

The only thing my old man ever gave me was a beating.