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My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.
— Missy Elliott
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
Addiction does not cause partner abuse, and recovery from addiction does not "cure" partner abuse.
— Lundy Bancroft
The squirrels on campus were beyond domestic; they were practically domestically abusive.
— Rainbow Rowell
So while I was busy saving you from Hell,
you were pushing me further to it; the poison murdering me well. — Shannon Perry
you were pushing me further to it; the poison murdering me well. — Shannon Perry
Most of our informants [incest survivors] remembered their mothers as weak and powerless, finding their only dignity in martyrdom.
— Judith Lewis Herman
An imbalanced association is when one or both parties become abusive and takes unfair advantage, tries to block another's enlightenment or success.
— Frederick Lenz
Comment sections on the internet is like gang graffiti, abusive words sprayed like nonsense and it's ugly to look at.
— Michael P. Naughton
While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.
— Tiffany Madison
The rule of thumb is that if someone is able to be verbally or physically abusive, he or she is able to understand that the behavior is wrong.
— Edward T. Welch
We are not doing celebrity, personality, abusive politics - we are doing ideas. This is about hope.
— Jeremy Corbyn
Now it seems cruel, abusive even, but this all happened before the invention of self-esteem, which, frankly, I think is a little overrated.
— David Sedaris
I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.
— William Trevor
What slavery really demonstrated was that we don't really know how to use energy wisely and that we can be incredibly abusive and barbaric.
— Andrew Nikiforuk
In sexual contact a doorway opens between people, and it is very possible for someone to be abusive at that time with energy.
— Frederick Lenz
I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.
— Janice Dickinson
I remember the pain I felt, and wonder why a man who was such an accomplished liar had to tell the truth that day.
— Toni Maguire
Everyone secretly wants to be owned.
— Alicen Grey
It is essential that children who are directly or indirectly affected by domestic violence receive psychological care.
— Asa Don Brown
Abuse counselors say of the abusive client: When he looks at himself in the morning and sees his dirty face, he sets about washing the mirror.
— Lundy Bancroft
Girls may try to avoid being alone at all costs, including remaining in an abusive friendship.
— Rachel Simmons
I like kindness. Who doesn't? Life is definitely too short for self-centered, abusive people.
— Ellen Greene
I can't imagine laying a finger on my kids. I go the other way and probably because my father was so abusive.
— Billy Bob Thornton
The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.
— Tatum O'Neal
Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.
— Kara Walker
A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.
— Andrew Vachss
When you truly love yourself, you do not accept abusive relationships, because you know you deserve better.
— Stephen Richards
It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.
— Stefan Molyneux
My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.
— S.E. Hinton
An abusive relationship should be easy to identify though often one of the most difficult to end.
— Desmond Tutu
The language of pornography is abusive, that of romance adoring. Both are addressed to a fetish.
— Mason Cooley
Fearing the unknown within myself has kept me crouching in a corner. I look to see who I am and discover much that is worthy.
— Maureen Brady
I truly believe the American consumer doesn't want to buy products made under abusive conditions.
— Phil Knight
Because the child does not have the power to withhold consent, she does not have the power to grant it.
— Judith Lewis Herman
Sometimes, some of you speak about god, and I mistake him for an abusive lover you're trying to escape.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
The quiet but inexorable breaking down of self-esteem is much more sinister - it's violation of the soul.
— Rachel Abbott
Bound by Blood, Marked by the Dragonfly.
— Lisa Akers
Some people have abusive, negative, controlling tendencies in their blood; they are wired for havoc, bickering and deception.
— Bryant McGill
There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.
— Pranab Mukherjee
The bottom line was that I was in an abusive relationship.
— Shannon Celebi
I realized the preserving a relationship at all costs was not as important as affirming the human right to be free from abusive treatment.
— Rebecca Ann Parker
The first step in Overcoming domestic violence begins with recognizing you are in an abusive relationship.
— Grace Crockett
In short, the abusive mentality is the mentality of oppression.
— Lundy Bancroft
My personal view is that until there is a disincentive to write lies and abusive comments it's going to continue.
— Heather Mills
As he had kissed her neck, she could not repress the feeling she was a lamb making time with a wolf.
— Thomm Quackenbush
my parents Oedipal fakers
— Lidia Yuknavitch
Society has seldom considered the vicarious effects of domestic violence between partners on the lives of children.
— Asa Don Brown
Her children by herself after twenty years of an abusive.
— Rhonda Byrne
Children will always learn from us. If we are angry, abusive and violent ... how can we ever expect them to be peaceful?
— Timothy Pina
I was kind of a Rickles comic to begin with. I was caustic, and I was abusive and mean to the audience.
— Louie Anderson
In the minds of my parents, they are the victims; I am the abuser.
— Christina Enevoldsen
In my experience people who have been hurt either pass it on and become abusive themselves or they develop a great kindness.
— Louise Penny
Be your best proponent, ally, and advocate.
— Asa Don Brown
You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
They feed their demon and it gets really strong and then it makes them stay in abusive relationships
— Amy Poehler
A person who is humble would never be abusive or selfish; so don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care.
— Bryant McGill
It is seldom that domestic violence is an isolated episode; rather it is comprised of a number of episodes over an extended period of time.
— Asa Don Brown
Avoid the use of abusive words when communication is in session; you might scare away someone who is meant to become your mentor or your customer.
— Israelmore Ayivor
I am done looking for love where it doesn't exist. I am done coughing up dust in attempts to drink from dry wells.
— Maggie Young
It's never pretty when you leave an abusive and controlling relationship. The warden always protests when the prison gets shut-down.
— Steve Maraboli
When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.
— Glenn Beck
Domestic violence rarely affects only those directly involved in the abusive relationship.
— Asa Don Brown
Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.
— Samantha Power
They're currently sulking, by the way, and comforting themselves by sending abusive e-mails to Bill Gates.
— Simon R. Green
Women need total life support services for the mother as she and the family move through the crisis following disclosure.
— Janis Tyler Johnson
And we're at four. Alexis Ann, I think we're in an abusive relationship.
— Melissa A. Craven
Andrew was right. We probably wouldn't have any problems if I didn't go out of my way to create them.
— Alicia Thompson
...Studies have found that children who witness abuse are more likely to accept relationships that are abusive.
— Asa Don Brown
I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.
— Tatum O'Neal
For families to access affordable housing, they often need legal representation that takes their side against abusive landlords.
— Nydia Velazquez
his abuse
makes her an anvil
without spark — Munia Khan
makes her an anvil
without spark — Munia Khan
When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.
— Kevyn Aucoin
A lot of people who are involved in self-discovery lose energy to abusive teachers, to abusive friends and to entities, non-physical beings.
— Frederick Lenz
My experience in growing up in Scientology is that it is both mentally and at times physically abusive,
— Jenna Miscavige Hill
I'd lost myself in the abyss of someone else's tyranny ... again.
— Cassandra Giovanni
You are aggressive", says the emotional abusive.
— Mark Brightlife