Me and my momma getting together on this foundation for…

I was in a conversation and someone said: "You know, we were talking about the whole issue of transgender and how it has become…

— Oprah Winfrey

“Many women say that verbal violence causes more harm than physical violence because it damages self-esteem so deeply. Women have not wanted to hear…

— Suzanne Pharr

Every woman who has come to consciousness can recall an almost endless series of oppressive, violating, insulting, assaulting acts against her Self. Every woman…

— Mary Daly

The great tragedy in the new feminist theory in America is the loss of a sense of public commitment… Hungry women are not fed…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

“In a shelter meant for battered women, there were only two reasons a person would decide to leave. One, she had decided to launch…

— Anonymous

“As she breaks the silence, the upscale abused wife begins to feel affirmed and validated. The rationalizations she once relied on to sustain her…

— Susan Weitzman

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.…

— Hilda Solis

When I went kayak surfing in Cornwall, I got a really deep gash on my hand - it looked like I had a slug…

— Konnie Huq

The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpetrator, no matter how heartfelt. Rather, it…

— Judith Lewis Herman

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

— B. J. Novak

I represent an affluent district, but when I worked to form my county's first battered-women's shelter, some nights there were no beds left. Violence…

— Lynn Woolsey

“We live in a world in which women are battered and are unable to flee from the men who beat them, although their door…

— Natascha Kampusch

“In a shelter meant for battered women, there were only two reasons a person would decide to leave. One, she had decided to launch…

— Anonymous

There's no battered woman alive who didn't know in advance that the man was bad.

— Laura Schlessinger

I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When…

— Ann Rule