Men, crumpled like bed-sheets in hospitals, And women…

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

“Now, after my confession, I felt battered, like one of those dolls that always bounces back up when hit. But here's the thing -…

— Kresley Cole

“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

Every time people try and define me, it gets battered around. I like to keep people guessing.

— Jade Bird

Have you ever sent a loved son on vacation, and had him returned to you in a pine box, so horribly battered and water-logged…

— Mamie Till

I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books — brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished,…

— James Branch Cabell

It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but…

— George VI

Historical memory is a potent weapon in fighting against the desert of organized forgetting and implies a rethinking of the role that artists, intellectuals,…

— Henry Giroux

I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this, battered that…

— Princess Diana

“Oh course he had come for her, her cranky white knight with his battered but not broken K9 partner in tow.”

— Katie Ruggle

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

— Laura Schlessinger

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite a mess!…

— Ellen Potter

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