"I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety."

Abuse, Anxiety, Now

50

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety."

Exlpore more Abuse quotes

"Staying in an abusive relationship for the fear of public judgment is like allowing to be buried alive to impress a coffin maker."

Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Tanzanian Author

Abuse, Judgment, Fear, Freedom

"Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it really isn't about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Abuse, Power, Control, Forgiveness

"He was going to punish me now. He couldn't beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words."

Sherman Alexie, American Writer

Abuse, Word, Pain, Authority

"Abuse may consist of physical maltreatment or language that is belittling, discriminatory..."

Asa Don Brown, Canadian Author

Abuse, Violence, Discrimination, Harm

"He said he loved more than any other women he's ever loved and I had a black eye to prove it."

Crystal Woods, American Poet

Abuse, Violence, Illusion, Reality

"I'd never felt so helpless - so hopeless - in my life as I did there. To be completely under someone's power, with no one to turn to for help, to make someone feel like they're at fault for you hurting them . . . I realized that was exactly what I'd done to Carly. That hangs over me every day."

Richelle Mead, American Author

Abuse, Power, Regret, Control, Hurt

"The problem with depicting abusers as full-time monsters is that when a person is actually experiencing abuse in their own life, they'll think 'oh but he's the sweetest guy most of the time so he can't be an abuser ' or 'but he's not ALWAYS horrible, he's usually amazing, so he's not an abuser', and they'll make the mistake of thinking they mustn't really be being abused when they actually are."

Miya Yamanouchi, Japanese Author

Abuse, Awareness, Truth, Reality

"The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience."

Ed Markey, American Politician

Abuse, Being, Conscience, Treatment

"I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals."

Richard Pryor, American Actor

Abuse, Animals, Suffering

"I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid."

Christopher Eccleston, English Actor

Abuse, School

Explore more quotes by Carol Ann Duffy

"I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister."

Family, Childhood, Space

"I still read Donne, particularly his love poems."

Love, Poems

"Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief."

Family, Father, Belief, Christmas

"Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning."

Truth, Beginning, Trying

"When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light."

Life, Light, Living, Treasure

"Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries."

Family, Children, Theatre

"It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal."

Woman, Women, Poetry, Fiction

50

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Abuse quotes

"Staying in an abusive relationship for the fear of public judgment is like allowing to be buried alive to impress a coffin maker."

"He was going to punish me now. He couldn't beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words."

"Abuse may consist of physical maltreatment or language that is belittling, discriminatory..."

"He said he loved more than any other women he's ever loved and I had a black eye to prove it."

"I'd never felt so helpless - so hopeless - in my life as I did there. To be completely under someone's power, with no one to turn to for help, to make someone feel like they're at fault for you hurting them . . . I realized that was exactly what I'd done to Carly. That hangs over me every day."

"The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience."

"I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals."

"I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid."

Explore more quotes by Carol Ann Duffy

"I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister."

"I still read Donne, particularly his love poems."

"Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief."

"Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning."

"When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light."

"Poetry and prayer are very similar."

"Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have."

"I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales."

"Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries."

"It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal."