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

[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.

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.

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

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

You look too pretty to be useful." "Truer words were never spoken.

Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.

There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.

The music has had a certain quality that people like just because it's a real true expression of how we are as musicians.

That would be delightful,' agreed Flora, thinking how nasty and boring it would be.

A good Muslim is not one who is strictest in his judgment, but who is most patient in listening.

I think Donald Trump needs to be judged on his own words and his own behavior and the American voter is getting ample evidence on which they can make that judgment.

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it.

It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.