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

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.

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

[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.

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.

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