Riane Eisler Quotes

Domestic violence is often ignored as it usually happens behind closed doors and it can seem easier not to get involved. Yet, domestic violence continues to affect 1 in 4 women at some point in their lifetime, regardless of their background, career, race or age, and it is vital that we do something now to protect those directly affected by abuse in the home.

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

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?

We can't allow domestic violence to become a campaign issue.

The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now & with somebody & and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.

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.

It's not a world war yet, but we're at war, because ISIS has declared war on us.

Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction.

Where men come to and women come together most intimately in sexuality in the home has become suffused with violence.

As many as one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex or abused in some other way - most often by someone she knows, including by her husband or another male family member.

Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.

My husband worked on Wall Street and was an Ivy League graduate as well. In our world, we were the last couple you'd imagine enmeshed in domestic violence.

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

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.

Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

I don't want to constantly be writing about terrorism and strife.

In Islam, there is no such thing as rape between the husband and wife.

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

Since 9-11, more women have been killed by their husbands or boyfriends that Americans have been killed in 9-11, Iraq, and Afghanistan put together.

We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence is in the home.

Domestic violence is much more prevalent than people realize.

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

Violence against women and children resembles an epidemic. It has spread through society, sparing no social group or class.

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