Domestic Violence Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“There is a misconception that LGBT people are always going to dance parties, spending their ‘pink pound’ and enjoying themselves. The reality for many LGBT people is that our lives can be scarred by poverty, discrimination, homophobia and domestic violence. We need to make these issues public and demand services which will combat these inequalities.”
– Greg

“After I became an attorney, the mother of two girls I’d known in high school came to see me. She’d endured years of heinous abuse from her husband that nearly destroyed her. I’d never suspected a thing.”
– Harry Reid

“Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.”
– Herbert Ward

“My niece was a sexual-assault victim. My sister is a survivor of domestic violence. We have more shelters for animals than for battered women. That’s not the message we should be sending.”
– Hilda Solis

“Domestic violence can be so easy for people to ignore, as it often happens without any witnesses and it is sometimes easier not to get involved. Yet, by publicly speaking out against domestic violence, together we can challenge attitudes towards violence in the home and show that domestic violence is a crime and not merely unacceptable.”
– Honor Blackman

“LGBT Domestic Abuse is a bit of an ‘elephant-in-the-room’ type situation: we all know it’s there, we probably all know someone who has experienced it, but too many of us would still rather tip-toe round it than face the reality. Maybe it’s the shame factor – we’re all so busy trying to convince the rest of society that gay people are fine, upstanding citizens that we can’t accept we have the same flaws as everyone else. Yet our community would actually be so much stronger if it did.”
– Iona Fiesta

“Although I haven’t experienced violence in a relationship, I know that two women every week in England and Wales are killed by their partner or ex-partner, and that unless we act now, many more women will die because of domestic violence. We must speak out now against all forms of domestic violence, not only physical abuse but also the emotional, sexual and financial abuse which means that many women are afraid to be at home with their partner.”
– Jemma Kidd

“If you have survived an abuser, and you tried to make things right… If you forgave, and you struggled, and even if the expression of your grief and your anger tumbled out at times in too much rage and too many words… If you spent years hanging on to the concepts of faith, hope, and love, even after you knew in your heart that those intangibles, upon which life is formed and sustained, would fail in the end… And especially, if you stood between your children – or anyone – and him, and took the physical, emotional, and spiritual pummeling in their stead, then you are a hero.”
– Jenna Brooks

“I followed through this time with going. I quit my job of over 10 years. I gave everything he had back. I didn’t want any of it.”
– Jennifer

“I was over it. I had enough. I didn’t want to live that way anymore.”
– Jennifer

“Recent research has highlighted both the prevalence of domestic abuse within LGBT communities, and huge gaps in service provision. It is absolutely crucial that we, as professionals and people within communities, work to put LGBT DV on the national and local agenda in order to address some of these gaps – gaps which exist both in a cultural understanding of the dynamics of domestic abuse within LGBT communities and within direct service provision itself. Domestic abuse affects the lives of both the people directly involved and those who surround them; in short this is everyone’s business and everyone’s responsibility and cannot afford to be ignored, either as individuals or as a society.”
– Jess Taylor

“There can be no better measure of our governance than the way we treat our children, and no greater failing on our part than to allow them to be subjected to violence, abuse or exploitation.”
– Jessica Lange

“When you’re in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that’s the way they’re supposed to act. And girls think that’s an accepted way men will treat them.”
– Jim Costa

“Even child abuse specialists do not routinely screen for domestic violence. This shows how much more education we need to do, even among experts, to understand the known links between violence of the child and the parent.”
– Jocelyn Brown

“My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force that might, at any moment, break loose, and do something terrible.”
– John Burnside

“It’s not enough for women to speak out on the issue ?- for the message to be strong and consistent, women’s voices must be backed up by men’s.”
– John Conyers, Jr.

“The key thing is to ensure that we give the criminal-justice system the tools it needs, so that women’s rights are turned into reality. It is not enough to say domestic violence is a crime ?- in order for the laws to be successful, lawyers and courts must have the necessary means to prosecute it.”
– Jon Kyl

“It is difficult to get Latina and Asian women to speak out. We must make it clear it’s not their problem, it’s our problem. We need magazines like this one to keep talking about the issue. And know that we women in Congress are with you 100 percent.”
– Juanita Millender-McDonald

“Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself- your strengths and your limitations –in contrast to depending on affirmation from others.”
– Judith Bardwick

“The time when domestic violence is the most lethal is when the person is trying to leave the situation.”
– Julie Johnston

“I grabbed my car keys ahead of time and my phone, otherwise he would have smashed my phone and not given me my keys.”
– KareMarie

“We all like to think that if we were the victims of domestic abuse we’d up and leave – but it’s not always as easy or straightforward as that. Women stay with abusive partners for all kinds of reasons – they love them, they fear them, they have children with them, they believe they can change them or they simply have no where else to go.”
– Kate Thornton

“Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there’s no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners.”
– Kate Thornton

“The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized.”
– Katherine Dunn

“Life after abuse can be one of the most frightening and most liberating experiences of your life.”
– Kellie Jo Holly

“One main problem with raising awareness of LGBT abuse is the denial. The term “domestic violence” is perceived as something akin to alcoholism, (“I don’t sit on a park bench drinking“) and people do not see that they are perpetrating or are a victim of DV because they have a set idea about what it is.”
– Kim

“After all these years of working so hard, to lose her own daughter to domestic violence is just a tragedy that goes beyond measure.”
– Kit Gruelle

“Domestic violence is a whole pattern of behavior. There are a whole lot of ways that it impacts the workplace, starting with absenteeism and lost productivity.”
– Laurie Fogelman

“There is also a surging fear of marriage among young people. The number of divorces, extra-marital affairs, cheating and domestic violence have warned us that marriage isn’t easy.”
– Li Li

“Social services have always been difficult to run, especially when you’re new. Domestic violence shelters have always been at the ragged edge of dangerous work … and people are afraid of shelters.”
– Linda Healy

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