Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence.

[Domestic violence is] a carefully laid physical, financial and psychological trap.

It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is: kill her.

Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.

We should hold abusers — and no one else — responsible for the damage they inflict.

Women are naturally competitive. That's what drives women to form cliques at early age.

The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.

Cheerfulness prepares a glorious mind for all the noblest acts.

Lord till I reach that blissful shore No privilege so dear shall be As thus my inmost soul to pour In prayer to thee.

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.

Boy, take my advice, and never try to invent any thing but--happiness.

You've always been two people. The Jenna who wants to please and the Jenna who secretly resents in. They won't break, you know. Your parents never thought you were perfect. You did.

If you have a footprint, be happy, because it means that you aren't a shadow!

How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I have an edge.

I want to represent possibilities. I want to represent magic, right, that you're in a universe, and two plus two equals four.