Best 5 quotes in «battered women quotes» category

There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.

I want you to shave,” he repeated. “I like the little girl look.” It was then that June caught his meaning. “You mean...down...down there?” she asked. “Yeah, down there.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

We live in a world in which women are battered and are unable to flee from the men who beat them, although their door is theoretically standing wide open. One out of every four women becomes a victim of severe violence. One out of every two will be confronted by sexual harassment over her lifetime. These crimes are everywhere and can take place behind any front door in the country, every day, and barely elicit much more than a shrug of the shoulders and superficial dismay.

Law and justice are not always the same.