Angelina Jolie Quotes

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?

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

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

My mom and dad? Oh, they were a fiery pair. They stayed together for the kids and also because they were hopelessly in love with each other, but they were totally incompatible.

I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from women, usually when I failed to respond to their advances.

Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.

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.

As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.

I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.

Let's not glamorize abuse.

I don't think anybody should ever touch anybody in anger, ever.

I always wanted what Mom and Dad had.

The kind of issues that we face as detectives are similar to what the other married couples out there are facing, or the brother and sister, or the brother and brother are facing. Relationships are universal.

I know all about cheating. I've had six very successful marriages.

Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you.

Looks like she's been slapping the kid again.

Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops!

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.

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

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.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

See what I have to put up with every night?

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.

I'm endlessly fascinated by parenting, marriage, my wife and the ins and outs of marriage.