Amber Rudd Quotes

For a number of years I was relentlessly pursued by 10 to 15 men, almost daily. Spat at, verbally abused.

I've been stalked.

Stalking is a cruel and incessant crime with often terrifying consequences. Victims can be tormented for years, left too scared to leave their homes and unnerved by the slightest unexpected sound.

My wife and daughters have faced vile and violent threats.

What is clear is that stalking can happen to anyone. Doctors are targeted by patients, people in the public eye are watched by obsessed fans, and ex-wives are followed by former husbands.

When you've been abused daily and you see people humiliated and harassed, you just get tired of it.

One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.

Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.

I've had death threats, if you can imagine.

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

I was physically abused and I retaliated.

I've been chased. I've been pushed. I've been screamed at. I've been verbally abused. I've been afraid for my safety. But I did it all in the name of entertainment.

He whipped her to make her scream and then he whipped her to make her hush.

Stalking is a serious crime with serious consequences.

My husband had a stalker, briefly.

Stalking is a crime that can paralyze an otherwise productive person with fear.

Nobody is taking my lunch money.

I was assaulted twice by Aisleyne Horgan Wallace and Janice Dickinson.

I'd rather not have to come face to face with predators. I'd rather not be harassed. But no. Those weren't my choices to make, were they?

A stalker tormented me for over five years. I don't know what was going through his mind, as he was a police officer, and because of that, I at first considered him someone to be trusted.

Let's not glamorize abuse.

My family and I have been the target of constant harassment and death threats, and I have been called the most vile and hateful names imaginable.

I have learnt that bullies use fear and intimidation as their primary weapons.

Sometimes, with portrayals of domestic violence, the women involved are just victims with no personality, just completely trodden-down. But people continue to live their normal lives: they go out; they continue to have arguments with their partners, even if there is always the fear of where that might end up.

Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can't. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn't want to fight somebody.