Joe Slovo Quotes

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

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.

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

Domestic violence is much more prevalent than people realize.

I joined the 'Celebri-tee campaign' and customized what is negatively known as a 'wife beater' to raise awareness about domestic abuse and the ways in which abusive language can be hurtful.

I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.

It is the most vicious of all crimes - to be abused by someone you had a relationship with! Because then you blame yourself.

I know victims of domestic abuse. I know what it takes for people to get out, and I also know why people stay. It's heartbreaking.

There are endless new variations on how to hurt a woman physically, emotionally, financially, and socially.

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.

I'm a long way from Ike Turner.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

I was physically abused and I retaliated.

There was mental and physical abuse in my family.

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 very anti-domestic violence.

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

Abusive relationships go on and on. You're in it for so long that it can almost be impossible to see it for what it is. That just becomes your life. We get used to and adapt.

Many a woman has suffered at the hands of a Paul Morel. There's more than one way of being brutal.

Let's not glamorize abuse.

I can't have my family in my life because they are abusive, and I don't have control over that. There is an abusive culture in my family, and I have to turn away from it.

People who are in abusive relationships often don't realise it, but it slowly seems to build until you're trapped.

People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.

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