“He was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force that might, at any moment, break loose, and do something terrible.”
– John Burnside, A Lie About My Father: A Memoir
“Domestic violence is frequently excused when alcohol and other substances are involved.”
– Asa Don Brown
“Every time he raised his hands on her. He killed a prince from a fairy tale somewhere deep within her heart, brutally.”
– Akshay Vasu
“Every time he raised his hands on her. He killed a prince from a fairy tale somewhere deep within her heart, brutally.”
– Akshay Vasu
“We live in a world in which women are battered and are unable to flee from the men who beat them, although their door is theoretically standing wide open. One out of every four women becomes a victim of severe violence. One out of every two will be confronted by sexual harassment over her lifetime. These crimes are everywhere and can take place behind any front door in the country, every day, and barely elicit much more than a shrug of the shoulders and superficial dismay.”
– Natascha Kampusch, 3,096 Days