Battered women Quote by Anonymous

“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

“Women who bear the weight of opposition, she wrote, create a shelter for the rest of us.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

I really wanted to emphasize the idea of the women being isolated and abandoned . . . and they weren't raised to take care of themselves,…

— Sofia Coppola

“People spend so much time wondering why the women don’t leave. Where are all the people who wonder why the men are even abusive?…

— Colleen Hoover

“What was he thinking falling in love with her again, opening himself to another world of hurt when she left—knowing she would leave? She…

— Leah Braemel

“There were three of these women, separated by short intervals of pain, remorse, and despair. When he and the last one had their final…

— Andre Dubus

“I know she re-entered her prison with pain, with reluctance, with a moan and a long shiver. The divorced mates, Spirit and Substance, were…

— Charlotte Brontë

“And so you carried life for the world, Mary, as you fled, to protect that very life from threats of death. Joining the world's…

— Edwina Gateley

“Survive ... Some women survive by creating walls, big walls guarding their hearts and you say "let them in" but she has been covered…

— Ijeoma Umebinyuo

“The manner of the woman was ungracious; but her words were true. They saw that their presence could do nothing towards the alleviation of…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“During those few days and nights, pain had moved into S. as if into its own house. She felt occupied. A previously unknown illness…

— Slavenka Drakulić

“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