“Colón, who declined to comment for this story, says she is now seeking to own the truth of what happened to her in order to exorcise her demons and potentially help other trauma survivors.”— Geoff Weiss, entrepreneur.com
“The thing is, how a cop treats their partner is the very definition of police business. What goes on at home is intimately related to how an officer acts on the job, and the factors that lead to domestic abuse — coercion, intimidation, authoritarianism, a sense of entitlement to violence — are often…”— Isabelle Kohn, melmagazine.com
“The audio clips are indeed disturbing, as is the reality of a marriage where it becomes necessary for the couple to consensually record their arguments.”— Miles Klee, melmagazine.com
“'Lorena' restores Lorena’s dignity, not only aligning her ordeal with the modern-day #MeToo movement, but perhaps more crucially, eviscerating the smug, lazy, sensation-driven treatment she received at the time.”— Tim Grierson, melmagazine.com
“There was this moment where it was like, ‘I don’t really need to be worried about a guy hurting me, I don’t need to live in fear.’ Because when women show fear, I feel like that makes us powerless.”— Lindsay Lohan, nytimes.com
“It's unclear how closely Steve Stanich's personal and professional problems overlap. But by the time of the restaurant's increased exposure, Stanich was struggling.”— Matthew Singer, wweek.com
“I was paroled to my mother, OK? What these experts don’t notice in the picture—i haven’t seen it in writing anywhere, it could be somewhere, um, that when I was fourteen years old I ran away from my mother. They mention that, OK. But if you look at that in the overall picture, why did I run away? I…”— Edmund Kemper, youtube.com
“In America, the greatest threat to women’s health and safety is domestic abuse, yet there is little funding to inform and support women.”— Alice Glass, spin.com
“I used to be really into Rihanna, that pop star, and then it's like—again, I don't want to ever throw stones from my glass house—but I follow her on Instagram and I just think about how many little girls beyond what I could even comprehend are obsessed with Rihanna. Like, you know, she left Barbados…”— Lena Dunham, jezebel.com
“I was hurt the most. Nobody felt what I felt… It happened. It happened to me… It was embarrassing. It was humiliating. It was hurtful. I lost my best friend… Everything I knew, was switched in a night”— Rihanna, youtube.com
“Women feel more guilt than men, not because of some weird chromosomal issue but because they have a history of being blamed for other people’s behavior. You get hit, you must have annoyed someone; you get raped, you must have excited someone; your kid is a junkie, you must have brought him up wrong.”— Germain Greer, edition.cnn.com