Spousal Abuse Quotes

“Don’t turn your face away.
Once you’ve seen, you can no longer act like you don’t know.
Open your eyes to the truth. It’s all around you.
Don’t deny what the eyes to your soul have revealed to you.

Now that you know, you cannot feign ignorance.
Now that you’re aware of the problem, you cannot pretend you don’t care.
To be concerned is to be human.
To act is to care.”
― Vashti Quiroz-Vega

“A battered wife is a married woman until she gets a divorce. Or until she kills the bastard.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

“Her mother always told her, “If he hits you, then you leave,” but Jack had never hit her, not with his fists.”
― Shannon Celebi, Small Town Demons

“There might have been prettier women in the room but, when she turned those babies on, fluttered her eyelashes, I was hers. It had taken me nearly fifteen years to extinguish their light. Now, when she looks at me, it's a vacuum. I had drained so much from her over the course of our marriage that every glance rips a little bit of my soul away to fill the void I had whittled within her.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Of Christmas Present

“At the core of domestic violence is power and control.”
― Asa Don Brown

“Maybe it's because your mother is always Mom to you, or maybe it's because I was in denial, but finally it hits me: Mom is just as much his captive as I am. She's not just the quieter parent, the more reasonable one. She's the trustee trapped between the warden and the other prisoner.

Immediately upon the heels of this understanding is another: I must not say this out loud. To say it out loud is to name it, and to name it is to give it irresistible power. That power will mean it can no longer be ignored. The polite fictions and convenient blind spots won't work anymore. Something will have to change.

And I know, with a certainty that fills me with dread, this is something she will not do. If I say the name of this thing he's done to her, she will fight me. She will join him, because she'll have to. Because she'll have to destroy me or else admit I was right.”
― April Daniels, Dreadnought

“Violent men, and men in authority over violent men, and the broader public that authorises those men, are not yet shamed by the harm of coercive control over women ... Maybe we can rest some hope on the growing activity of men of goodwill calling on each other to change. When that group hits a critical mass, the majority of men will be more likely to want to change.”
― Lee Lakeman

“My father taught me that beekeeping is both a burden and a privilege. You don’t bother the bees unless they need your help, and you help them when they need it. It’s a feudal relationship: protection in return for a percentage of the fruits of their labors.

He taught me that if a body is easily crushed, it develops a weapon to prevent that from happening.

He taught me that sudden movements get you stung.

I took these lessons a bit too much to heart.”
― Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan, Mad Honey

“Children have rights outside their mother's womb without having to be victim's of Domestic Violence inside their mother's womb.”
― Sheree' Gay, A Trap Of Malicious Blind Love A Memoir Of Sex, Seduction, Manipulation & Betrayal

“According to the National Institute of Justice, only one-quarter of domestic violence programs reported broaching the topic of substance abuse, and only 54% of substance abuse programs have reported broaching the topic of domestic violence.”
― Asa Don Brown

“Domestic violence is never an acceptable form of communication.”
― Asa Don Brown

“You aren't a hitter, are you?"
He stared down, confused. "You mean will I hit you?"
"Yes. I know that some men are."
"No. Never." He gathered her back in and held her tight. "Never."
"Good. I didn't think you were."
He pulled back and scanned her face. "If I do you have my permission to shoot me."
"I'll shoot you permission or not."
He laughed. "We're going to do well together.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Night Hawk

“Clint finally became fed up with his wife, Maggie. ‘He just turned around and cold-cocked her,’ recollected Fritz Manes. ‘Just decked her — knocked her right flat on her ass, clear from the living room into the bathtub in the bathroom.”
― Patrick McGilligan, Clint: The Life and Legend

“The cage? He called it love.
The bonds? Devotion.”
― Rita Kay, Tell Me It’s Fiction: Short Stories of Trauma, Healing, and Surreal Emotional Truths