Alice Walker Quotes

She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that if it ever happened again, she would leave him. He swore that it wouldn't and she believed him. But it only got worse after that, like when his dinner was cold, or when she mentioned that she'd visited with one of the neighbors who was walking by with his dog. She just chatted with him, but that night, her husband threw her into a mirror.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Beat your wife on the wedding day, and your married life will be happy.

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

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

Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn’t make it right.

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.

There is female-on-male spouse abuse. There are women who hit their husbands. But there must have been something that caused that because otherwise it wouldn't have happened.

Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards.

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.

The more that we choose not to talk about domestic violence, the more we shy away from the issue, the more we lose.

Though God take the sunne out of the Heaven, yet we must have patience.

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.

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.

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.

Violence against women in this country is not levied against just Democrats, but Republicans as well... not just rich people or poor people. It knows no gender, it knows no ethnicity, it knows nothing.

I got hit a lot. I'm glad I lived through it.

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

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