Gloria Allred Quotes

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 read 'Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them,' and I found frightening pieces that related to... my own life.

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.

I'm very anti-domestic violence.

Domestic violence is much more prevalent than people realize.

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.

Daddy loves you, but he smacks you, and he can shout at you and smash things, but Daddy still loves you. So when you get into a relationship with someone who does all of that, why would it be unusual?

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.

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

What is harm for some women isn’t harm for another. Some women accept beatings and insults as a joke, while others do not.

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

An abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively.

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.

I don't think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though I don't recommend you do it the same way that you hit a man.

I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie.

Living with one woman is horrific.

I was physically abused and I retaliated.

I'd rather be on my own than be with a violent man.

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

When I was married to an abuser, he'd tell me he wouldn't have to get so angry if only I'd be less demanding, more supportive, more understanding. I hid the truth from everyone, especially myself.

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is 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.