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.

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.

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.