Robin Givens Quotes

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.

Beat your wife on the wedding day, and your married life will be happy.

She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that if it ever happened again, she would leave him. He swore that it wouldn't and she believed him. But it only got worse after that, like when his dinner was cold, or when she mentioned that she'd visited with one of the neighbors who was walking by with his dog. She just chatted with him, but that night, her husband threw her into a mirror.

I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.

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.

Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.

I was physically abused and I retaliated.

He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling.

She'd hit me before but never over and over and over and over into the head.

Every time I wake up, I see myself like somebody beat me up.

Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.

Domestic violence is an epidemic, and yet we don't address it. Until it happens to celebrities.

Domestic violence is much more prevalent than people realize.

My friends, they get married at 15 years old. I saw them with bruises on their faces. I realized this is the real face of child marriage.

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

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.

Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. You ought to bash Mr —— head open, she say. Think bout heaven later.

Domestic violence was a way of life in my home growing up, my brother and I watched helplessly numerous times as my mother was beaten and knocked unconscious while we dialed 911.

Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger.

When my kids were in preschool, I was part of a carpooling group. One mother sometimes showed up with bruises on her body. She always had an excuse. Then one morning, she didn't show up. Later, I learned she'd fled a violent marriage. I've always thought, If only I'd known, maybe I could have helped.

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.

Domestic violence causes far more pain than the visible marks of bruises and scars. It is devastating to be abused by someone that you love and think loves you in return. It is estimated that approximately 3 million incidents of domestic violence are reported each year in the United States.

The more that we choose not to talk about domestic violence, the more we shy away from the issue, the more we lose.

More than one of my girlfriends tried to kill me a few times.

All you did was wreck my bed and in the morning kick me in the head.