Abuse and respect are diametric
“Abuse and respect are diametric opposites: You do not respect someone whom you abuse, and you do not abuse someone whom you respect.”
– Lundy Bancroft
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- “Physical aggression by a man toward his partner is abuse, even if it happens only once.” – Lundy Bancroft
- Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power. – Clint Eastwood
- Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self respect leads to self discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt that’s real power. – Clint Eastwood
- Why do men like intelligent women? Because opposites attract. – Kathy Lette
- I’m lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me. – Ann Bancroft
- Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do. – Clara Barton
- Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements. – Ann Bancroft
- The public is wiser than the wisest critic. – George Bancroft
- We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws. – Hunter S. Thompson
- There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age I missed it coming and going. – J.B. Priestly