Katie Piper Quotes

Domestic violence is much more prevalent than people realize.

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

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.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

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.

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

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.

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

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

I did some research into domestic violence, and there were some stories that will stay me with forever.

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.

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

Let's not glamorize abuse.

Like with all other crime, we must, of course, treat the perpetrators of these actions as the criminals they are. But unlike with the vast majority of other crime, justice is not delivered simply by punishing the perpetrator. This is because the harm associated with domestic violence extends far beyond the point of contact.

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.

Not all forms of abuse leave bruises.

My wife is my best friend. The thought that people are afraid to go home to their partners for fear of being abused physically or emotionally makes me feel sick. It's not easy but you need to get help and get out.

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

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.

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

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.

I was hit for the first time before I was married.

Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.

Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.

So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.