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

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

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

If there is one thing the psychic taught me, it's that people and events are rarely who and what we think they are. They are more meaningful, more worth our attention-part of some finely choreographed, eternal dance that we would be wise to bow down before in gratitude and humility

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

The question, 'Why does she stay?' is code for some people for, 'It's her fault for staying,' as if [domestic violence] victims intentionally choose to fall in love with men intent upon destroying us.

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.