Domestic violence can be one of the most difficult types of situations to talk about and to escape from. If you or someone you know is in a situation that’s unsafe, these domestic violence quotes can hopefully encourage you or them to seek the necessary support and resources to get yourself or the person you know out
Domestic Violence Quotes on Courage
At any given moment you have the power to say this is not how the story is going to end.”
- Christine Mason Miller
- “And here you are living despite it all.”
- Rupi Kaur – “Grief does not demand pity; It requests acknowledgment.”
- Jude Gibbs
- Trauma may happen to you, but it can never define you.”
- Melinda Longtin
- Don’t judge yourself by what others did to you.
- Cody Kennedy
- “All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype.”
- Barbara Kruger
- Sometimes the shame is not the beatings, not the rape. The shaming is in being asked to stand judgment.”
- Meena Kandasamy
- When it comes to abuse, you believe there’s no way out. There is always help.
- Rev. Donna Mulvey
- The enemy doesn’t stand a chance when the victim decides to survive.”
- Rae Smith
- Violence is a dark contrast to love.
- Robi Ludwig
Domestic Violence Quotes on Surviving
“You can recognize survivors of abuse by their courage. When silence is so very inviting, they step forward and share their truth so others know they aren’t alone.”
- Jeanne McElvaney
- Never believe a man’s claim that he has to harm his partner in order to protect her; only abusers think this way.”
- Lundy Bancroft
- “Physical aggression by a man toward his partner is abuse, even if it happens only once.”
- From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, -I survived.”
- Fr. Craig Scott
- Lori realized now she is a survivor. She is a stronger woman for opening her eyes and stepping away from someone who didn’t respect themselves and would never respect her.
More domestic violence quotes
“The best protection against rape, stalking, and domestic violence is to raise men who both understand that women are different, and would never take advantage of this difference.”
- Wendy Shalit
- Domestic violence can occur at any socioeconomic level
- Let men know it is not okay to mistreat a woman
- In violence, we forget who we are
- It’s not enough for women to speak out on the issue – for the message to be strong and consistent, women’s voices must be backed up by men’s
- Violence is violence and can in no way be misconstrued as discipline under any circumstance cultural or otherwise
- No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse
- Women have to feel like they are not alone
- We have your backs, we’re going to keep fighting for you
- Enough to anyone who excuses sexual assault and violence against women
Domestic Violence Quotes on Recovering
Use the darkness of your past to propel you to a brighter future
- Domestic violence is not just perpetrated by a husband or a partner. Families too are a party to it.
- You survived the abuse, you’re going to survive the recovery.”
- Mariska Hargitay
- Overcoming abuse doesn’t just happen, It takes positive steps every day. Let today be the day you start to move forward.”
- Assunta Harris
- Raise your heart, not your hand.”- Abhijit Naskar
- “Your growth comes not as you work harder to get something you don’t have, but as you live in the reality of what you have already been given.”
- Nancy Guthrie
- “Trauma creates change you don’t choose. Healing is about creating change you do choose.”
- Michelle Rosenthall
- Our wounds are our sources of growth.”- Rachel Naomi Remen
What are you doing to prevent domestic violence?
Ask for help
- Overcoming a domestic violence situation can push a person to their limits
- If you are a victim, know that within you, there is the strength to continue on the fight for survival and live a happy, safe life
Domestic Violence Quotes on Strength
If we are to fight discrimination and injustice against women we must start from the home for if a woman cannot be safe in her own house then she cannot be expected to feel safe anywhere
- Survivors of abuse show us the strength of their personal spirit every time they smile
- Violence doesn’t equal strength
- We can all take responsibility for helping to bring about change, and keeping our friends and colleagues safe from domestic violence
- Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.” -Rikki Rogers
- Threatening a current or former partner isn’t passion, or love, or heartache. It’s violence, it’s abuse and it’s a crime.”- Miya Yamanouchi
- I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
- Carl Jung
Powerful domestic violence quotes
Salma Hayek
- Mariska Hargitay
- Rob Jackson
- Pearl Cleage
- Asa Don Brown
- Rosie Batty
- Sandra Pupatello
- Leslie Morgan Steiner
- “Domestic violence and sexual assault go hand in hand.”
- Georgia Taylor
- Domestic violence is an epidemic, and yet we don’t address it until it happens to celebrities
- The time when domestic violence is the most lethal is when the person is trying to leave the situation
