“A battered wife is a married woman until she gets a divorce. Or until she kills the bastard.”

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water. ”

“She was the most intelligent woman of her day and she refused to get married in nine languages.”

“An attractive woman likes feminine company until she's twenty, and after she's twenty-five.”

“All of these battered husbands are still with their wives. When a woman stays with a man who batters, we provide shelters to encourage her to escape. If she decides not to escape, we say she is a victim of “Battered Woman Syndrome."”

“A man cannot tell whether a woman is in love with him or his security blanket until she is financially and psychologically independent enough to leave. Until a woman has learned how to leave, even she cannot be sure she has learned to love.”

“Men will not change as long as women ‘marry up.’ Men won't change until we have a perspective on how powerless power makes us. A woman cannot help a man change until she has a perspective on how powerless power makes men.”

“A child growing up in an excessively safe environment may never learn that he is one — not until he gets married and has a wife to tell him so.”

“When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.”

“She was not a Respectable Married Woman but fully a human being.”