Paula Hawkins Quotes

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.

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

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.

You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.

Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.

I'd rather be on my own than be with a violent man.

I'm very anti-domestic violence.

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.

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

Not all forms of abuse leave bruises.

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

My husband worked on Wall Street and was an Ivy League graduate as well. In our world, we were the last couple you'd imagine enmeshed in domestic violence.

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.

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him, if he ever reads this. But he was older, in the music business - or so he said.

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

There was mental and physical abuse in my family.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

Daddy loves you, but he smacks you, and he can shout at you and smash things, but Daddy still loves you. So when you get into a relationship with someone who does all of that, why would it be unusual?

The worst violence we can do to each other often is psychological, especially in families. I dwell a lot on domestic danger. That's the backdrop of most of my novels - what kind of damage is done without ever lifting a finger.

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.

What is harm for some women isn’t harm for another. Some women accept beatings and insults as a joke, while others do not.

My father was very abusive, and it was hard for my mother at first to leave because we had depended on him for so long. Sometimes you kind of get adjusted to getting that beating.