Eve Torres Quotes

When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.

Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another.

I'm very anti-domestic violence.

When you talk about domestic violence, it's not just athletes that are involved in it. Our society has really done a poor job of addressing it. And it needs to come to the forefront.

I know just about everything that really goes on with domestic violence.

There are endless new variations on how to hurt a woman physically, emotionally, financially, and socially.

Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12.

For far too many women the number one health risk is the violence we face in our own home.

Domestic violence is much more prevalent than people realize.

When working at Women's Aid, I met countless women whose families had not believed them when they spoke of their abuse at the hands of another loved one.

I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.

As a child, I heard in my home doctors and ambulance men say, 'Mrs. Stewart, you must've done something to provoke him.' 'Mrs. Stewart, it takes two to make an argument.' Wrong. Wrong! My mother did nothing to provoke that - and even if she had, violence is never ever a choice that a man should make. Ever.

Abuse directed at women is always sexual or violent.

I know victims of domestic abuse. I know what it takes for people to get out, and I also know why people stay. It's heartbreaking.

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence.

It's' something I have gotten used to. I can't remember a time when my mother was not being attacked.

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

We have a zero tolerance policy here at Bellator when it relates to any form of domestic violence.

Let's not glamorize abuse.

For generations America and its institutions have refused to acknowledge the true severity of the harm that domestic violence imposes on our society.

I think sometimes certain behaviour of men is seen as normal or usual - but it's never normal or usual to the victim, ever. It's horrific.

People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.

In March 2008, when I was 24 years old, a man I had been dating arranged for an accomplice to throw sulphuric acid in my face.

Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn’t make it right.