Abuse Quote by Kathy Hochul

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

— Ariel Gore

To see your mother beaten by your father is something you never forget. It's horrific. When my dad was like that, I hated him,…

— Coleen Nolan

I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the…

— Sonia Sotomayor

Domestic violence was a way of life in my home growing up, my brother and I watched helplessly numerous times as my mother was…

— Troy Vincent

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending…

— Alice Walker

Mother had an affair with the milkman, who later became my stepdad and my father left. My stepdad was an angry guy and Mother…

— Grayson Perry

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

— S. E. Hinton

Violence was very much a part of my mother's upbringing - a little less so with my father's, but my father was an angry…

— Rodney Crowell

I was never physically abused, but when I came out to my parents late in life, when I was 27, they definitely had an intervention.

— Dee Rees

All my mother ever wanted to talk about was what she hated about my father and the times he cheated on her when he…

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

I was exposed to violence while I was still in the womb - my father punched my mother in the stomach while she was…

— Jim Goad

When my father left us, my mother went back to school immediately. She went to school in the day while we were at school,…

— Ginni Rometty