Nicola Roberts Quotes

Many a woman has suffered at the hands of a Paul Morel. There's more than one way of being brutal.

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.

One of the speakers asked how many women had been harassed or abused sexually in their life? There were thousands of women in the audience, and almost every one of them raised her hand.

See what I have to put up with every night?

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

When a woman cries date rape what she means is the whole thing went too quickly.

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

Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.

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

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

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

I'm a long way from Ike Turner.

I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.

We're divorced from my father because he did some mean and scary things to us.

My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us.

The use of rape or sexual intimidation as a means of punishment or retribution, whether by individuals or by groups, is unacceptable in our view.

[Rape] is nothing more or less than a conscious process on intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear.

Rape is not illegal. It is regulated.

The vilest malefactor has some wretched woman tied to him, against whom he can commit any atrocity except killing her, and, if tolerably cautious, can do that without much danger of the legal penalty.

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

Rape has been normalized. Rape is in our culture. Gender based violence is part of our whole patriarchal culture. It happens all the time…. There is silence because of fear, because the perpetrator has the power one way or the other/

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.

I think if you're going to abuse someone, you really have to convince them of two things. First, you have to normalise what you're doing, convince them that it's not that bad. And the second thing is to convince them that they deserve it in some way.

Let's not glamorize abuse.

I joined the 'Celebri-tee campaign' and customized what is negatively known as a 'wife beater' to raise awareness about domestic abuse and the ways in which abusive language can be hurtful.