Domestic violence Quote by Haruki Murakami

“That was her entire dinner. It was a simple meal, but ideal for preventing constipation. Constipation was one of the things she hated most…

— Haruki Murakami

Constipation was one of the things she hated most in the world, on par with despicable men who commit domestic violence and narrow-minded religious…

— Haruki Murakami

“Now constipation was quite a different matter...It would be dreadful for the whole world to know about troubles of that nature. She felt terribly…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“That she made a point to eat only the gristliest chicken bits, the burned biscuits, the mealiest potatoes, while she complained that his children…

— Paul Harding

“She was, in fact, one of those people of exalted principles; one of those opinionated puritans, of which England produces so many; one of…

— Guy de Maupassant

“She was quite a kindly woman. What she said at the last in the kitchen was quite true. ‘I didn’t want to kill anybody.’…

— Agatha Christie

“She was not an unkind woman, despite a lifetime of being gently dried out on the stove of education, but she was conscientious and…

— Terry Pratchett

“She had witnessed in nauseating detail how the human world worked: its rituals of comfort (television, food, religion); its appetite for poison (television, food,…

— Clive Barker

“Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.”

— Naomi Wolf

“I curse the day starvation became a commonly accepted diet for women.”

— Nicole Williams

“She had lost her compassion for people and a thick crust of indifference had formed around her feelings - that disgust that afflicts the…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“Old repressed antipathy stirred in her. She had a rooted fear of rooms full of objects. They weighed on down and held one there,…

— Cora Sandel