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“As people, we have forgotten to be people. We know how to be doctors, lawyers, nurses, teachers, we know what to do, we know what to buy, but how do I just sit with you in your pain? How do I sit with you in your vulnerability and not betray you, not abuse you? We do not know how to do that, even in our homes.”

People Knows Home Pain Know How Teacher Doctors Abuse Forgotten Lawyer Vulnerability Nurse Betray

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“I know all about violence and physical abuse because my first husband used to beat me severely when he got drunk. Once, I can remember coming home from a party and walking up our vast marble staircase at the Fifth Avenue house while he was striking me. I thought, If I just gave him one shove down the staircase I would be rid of him forever.”

Ifs Knows Firsts I Can Home Would Be Remember Used House Party Forever Violence Walking Husband Beats Abuse Drunk Coming Home Fifth Avenues Marble Physical Abuse Staircases Fifth Avenue

Author:Clare Boothe Luce

“It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.”

Sometimes Home Abuse Hypocrisy Threshold Reformers

Book:George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss

Source: George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss

“Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?”

Looks Home Abuse Accustomed

Author:Plautus

“Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents.”

Mean Children Long Home Parent Challenges Risk Danger Abuse Politically Correct

Author:Michael Gove