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Violence Quotes by Leslie Morgan Steiner
- [Domestic violence is] a carefully laid physical, financial and psychological trap.
- It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is: kill her.
- The question, 'Why does she stay?' is code for some people for, 'It's her fault for staying,' as if [domestic violence] victims intentionally choose to…
- Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to…
- I did not know that the first step in any domestic violence relationship is to seduce and charm the victim. I also did not know…
- Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.
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