"Our culture encourages women to nurture men, making……" — Leslie Morgan Steiner
"Our culture encourages women to nurture men, making it predictable that many experience a seductive empathy for abusive men, as well as the misguided hope that love can obliterate an ugly past."
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11 Quotes by Leslie Morgan Steiner
Leslie Morgan Steiner has 11 quotes on this site.
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If there is one thing the psychic taught me, it's that people and events are rarely who and what we…
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[Domestic violence is] a carefully laid physical, financial and psychological trap.
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It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is: kill her.
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The question, 'Why does she stay?' is code for some people for, 'It's her fault for staying,' as if [domestic…
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Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we…
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We should hold abusers — and no one else — responsible for the damage they inflict.
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What every new parent needs.a ton of expert advice, presented with humor and zero negativity, from two moms who instantly…
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I did not know that the first step in any domestic violence relationship is to seduce and charm the victim.…
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Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.
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My mom is one of my role models in a complicated way. I learned from her how to be a…
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More Abusive Quotes
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When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure…
— Joyce Banda
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I want to say that nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification to do that. I didn't just…
— Roseanne Barr
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When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any…
— Glenn Beck
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When someone comes up to me and says, 'Mary, you helped save my marriage', or, 'Mary, you helped me get…
— Mary J. Blige
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Some parents let their kids sleep at other people's houses, where they drink alcohol, watch TV for hours and God…
— Amy Chua
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The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never…
— Tatum O'Neal
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A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency,…
— Ron Franscell
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As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.
— Wyndham Lewis
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Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
— Martin Luther
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In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are…
— George Ryan
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There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.
— Pranab Mukherjee
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