One of the prevalent features of life with an angry or controlling partner is that he frequently tells you what you should… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“They also highlight the fact that a psychologically abusive person has no moral compass and is more than willing to use innocent… — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
“The individual that believes God permits a man to hit a woman or speak to her using abusive language, is void of… — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
There are many signs of an abusive relationship. The most telling sign is fear of your partner. If you feel like you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don’t waste another minute dealing with a toxic, negative, energy-draining person. Some people are wired for negativity. They love being argumentative, combative… — Les Brown Copy Share Image
The Milkoviches are a much more extreme, much darker version of what the Gallaghers could be. The Gallaghers don't have a violent,… — Noel Fisher Copy Share Image
“frankness of her character in her reply to the letter which announced its arrangement, she sent him language so very abusive, especially… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have said that gymnastics can be abusive and brutal. That was my experience. I felt trapped in a world where authority… — Katelyn Ohashi Copy Share Image
“I don't know if its right to miss you, After all you was so abusive, I think i became immune to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“An abusive relationship typically includes choices in partners who have histories of destructive and narcissistic behavior, and who commonly struggle with their… — Annie Tanasugarn, PhD Copy Share Image
“The woman knows from living with the abusive man that there are no simple answers. Friends say: “He’s mean.” But she knows… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Research has convincingly demonstrated that using therod creates children who arenot more obedient but who are instead simply more angryand aggressive than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What good is talking if neither of you are really committed? If one of you had an affair or got addicted to… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Narrative Collapse is what happens when we no longer have time in which to tell a story. Remote controls and DVRs give… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Because adoption meets the needs of children so successfully, and because there have long been waiting lists of couples hoping to adopt… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
To understand Cerutty you have to see him as a multifaceted personality. He could be both charming and very abusive. He was… — John Landy Copy Share Image
• People deserve a break. The stressed and unorganized person who doesn’t have the same priorities as you may be dealing with… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
There's so much going on, with child abuse, not having the right relationships and being in abusive relationships, that play into her,… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins, "What do we… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“I hated the need to pander to an abusive owner because it immediately assured me the custody of the animal, but I… — Chris Sparks Copy Share Image
It's so weird, like, it's not like Gamergate is the only bad thing to happen to me. I've been homeless before, I've… — Zoe Quinn Copy Share Image
It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him, if… — Lisa Snowdon Copy Share Image
Some parents let their kids sleep at other people's houses, where they drink alcohol, watch TV for hours and God knows what… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
“So why then are all your faces so sad? Don’t you know you’re beautiful? Where are you going when you leave here?… — Max Andrew Dubinsky Copy Share Image
“He was a bad, bad bastard. He abused the privilege of being a cunt, as my old Da would say.’ I smiled,… — Craig Russell Copy Share Image
While it can be aggressive playing rugby, the aggression doesn't leave the rugby pitch. A Real Man doesn't need to use violence… — Danny Care Copy Share Image
“While I do not in any way mean to say that a woman should throw herself into a torturous or abusive situation,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The truth is I like the crazy ones better than the well-behaved ones normally because they tend to be the passionate ones.… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
“Any man who discourages a mom from breastfeeding their newborn baby is probably abusive to the said woman and would later channel… — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abusive. Hundreds of millions of… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
I do have someone that I work with and she is amazing and I definitely don't have unmitigated abusive tendencies towards her.… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
I have made a career out of arguing that we shouldn't be criminalizing political differences. I've made a career out of arguing… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Sociologists and historians have avoided looking for the family sources of wars and social violence. Whenever a group produces murderers, the early… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency, insecurities, dreams… — Ron Franscell Copy Share Image
Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
Research has convincingly demonstrated that using the "rod" creates children who are not more obedient but who are instead simplymore angry and… — Julius Segal Copy Share Image
Towards the end of it [working as an escort girl] I could feel myself drifting towards a liquor habit and I had… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
I support people having a gun in public full stop, not just in your home. We don't have the right to bear… — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image