Battered Women Quotes:

Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn’t make it right.

- B. J. Novak

topic: Sound, Battered Women, Battered

The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpetrator, no matter how heartfelt. Rather, it must be based upon the self-protective capability of the victim. Until the victim has developed a detailed and realistic contingency plan and has demonstrated her ability to carry it out, she remains in danger of repeated abuse.

- Judith Lewis Herman

source: "Trauma and Recovery". Book by Judith Lewis Herman, 1992.

topic: Self, Safety, Heartfelt, Perpetrators, Battered Women

Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.

- Gloria Steinem

source: Gloria Steinem (1986). “Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions”, New Amer Library

topic: Home, Long, Faces, Dangerous Places, Battered Women

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

- Gloria Steinem

source: "Why the Internet Is Full of Feminist Quotes Falsely Attributed to Gloria Steinem" by Ruth Graham, www.slate.com. October 05, 2017.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Poor Planning, Lost Dreams

Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.

- Gloria Steinem

topic: Home, Men, Feminist, Battered Women, Equal Power

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

- James A. Garfield

topic: Teacher, Encouragement, Appreciation, Hard Truths, Powerful Women

There's no battered woman alive who didn't know in advance that the man was bad.

- Laura Schlessinger

topic: Women, Alive, He Man, Battered Women

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

- Gloria Steinem

topic: Daughter, Courage, Honesty, Mom And Daughter, Son And Daughter

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

- Gloria Steinem

topic: Writing, Should, Feels, Liberated Woman, Successful Writing

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

- Gloria Steinem

source: Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Fourth - and by Far the Most Recent - 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1990)

topic: Funny, Marriage, Witty, Men Women, Careers Choices

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

- Gloria Steinem

source: Ms., Spring 1972

topic: War, Dirty, Army, Challenging Status Quo, Challenging The Status Quo

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

- Gloria Steinem

topic: Law, Justice, Steps, Law And Justice, Liberated Woman

Every woman who has come to consciousness can recall an almost endless series of oppressive, violating, insulting, assaulting acts against her Self. Every woman is battered by such assaults - is on a psychic level, a battered woman.

- Mary Daly

source: Mary Daly (2016). “Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism”, p.307, Beacon Press

topic: Self, Psychics, Insulting, Battered Women

My niece was a sexual-assault victim. My sister is a survivor of domestic violence. We have more shelters for animals than for battered women. That's not the message we should be sending.

- Hilda Solis

topic: Niece, Animal, Domestic Violence, My Niece, Battered Women

When I went kayak surfing in Cornwall, I got a really deep gash on my hand - it looked like I had a slug on it - so I went to Harley Street for surgery, because I looked like a battered woman when I was making things on Blue Peter.

- Konnie Huq

source: "Konnie Huq: If I show my cleavage people make such a fuss". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 30, 2008.

topic: Blue, Hands, Surfing, Really Deep, Battered Women

I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.

- Ann Rule

topic: Book, Wife, Want, Battered Women, Battered

The great tragedy in the new feminist theory in America is the loss of a sense of public commitment.... Hungry women are not fed by this, battered women are not sheltered by it, raped women do not find justice in it, gays and lesbians do not achieve legal protections through it.

- Martha C. Nussbaum

topic: Commitment, Gay, Loss, Battered Women, Feminist Theory

I represent an affluent district, but when I worked to form my county's first battered-women's shelter, some nights there were no beds left. Violence against women crosses all economic lines.

- Lynn Woolsey

topic: Night, Domestic Violence, Bed, Battered Women, Affluent

The Bobbit case, which brought to life the ancient mythic archetype of woman as castrator, demonstrated that women are as aggressive as men and that sex is a dark, dangerous force of nature. But of course the feminist establishment, stuck in its battered-woman blinders, learned nothing as usual from this lurid refutation of its normal views. Classic art works like Bizet's Carmen tell us more about the irrationality of love, jealousy and revenge than do all the pat formulas of the counseling industry.

- Camille Paglia

topic: Art, Sex, Revenge, Counseling, Refutation

I was in a conversation and someone said: "You know, we were talking about the whole issue of transgender and how it has become so accepted now, and somebody said, 'You know the Oprah show, I think has had a big impact.'" I said, I don't think so. We did several transgender [shows], but we didn't do as much for transgender as I did for, say, abused kids or battered women. And they said, "But no, you started the conversation. You started the conversation and the conversation has led us to here."

- Oprah Winfrey

source: Source: wwd.com

topic: Kids, Thinking, Impact, Transgender, Battered Women