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Top 30 Rachel Louise Snyder Quotes (2024 Update)

Rachel Louise Snyder Quote: “And for every woman killed in the United States from domestic violence homicide, nearly nine are almost killed.”

1. “And for every woman killed in the United States from domestic violence homicide, nearly nine are almost killed.”

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Rachel Louise Snyder Quote: “The police acted as if the victims – Sally and Melanie – were overdramatizing the entire event. Some guy taking his own kid. It’s his kid after all. The gendered messages are crucial: men are strong; women are weak. Men have the power; women are powerless. Men are rational; women are hysterical. Whether you are a violent abuser or a law-abiding officer, the men on both sides of the Monson equation sent a message to the women.”

2. “The police acted as if the victims – Sally and Melanie – were overdramatizing the entire event. Some guy taking his own kid. It’s his kid after all. The gendered messages are crucial: men are strong; women are weak. Men have the power; women are powerless. Men are rational; women are hysterical. Whether you are a violent abuser or a law-abiding officer, the men on both sides of the Monson equation sent a message to the women.”

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Rachel Louise Snyder Quote: “Michelle saw was what so many other women before her had seen: that an abuser appears more powerful than the system.”

3. “Michelle saw was what so many other women before her had seen: that an abuser appears more powerful than the system.”

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Rachel Louise Snyder Quote: “Lynn Rosenthal. Rosenthal was the first White House liaison to the Office of Violence Against Women, a position created by the Obama Administration that remains unfilled two years into the Trump Administration.”

4. “Lynn Rosenthal. Rosenthal was the first White House liaison to the Office of Violence Against Women, a position created by the Obama Administration that remains unfilled two years into the Trump Administration.”

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Rachel Louise Snyder Quote: “Leaving is never an event; it’s a process.”

5. “Leaving is never an event; it’s a process.”

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Rachel Louise Snyder Quote: “We now know it’s the ones who don’t show up in court, who don’t renew the restraining orders, who are in the most danger.”3.”

6. “We now know it’s the ones who don’t show up in court, who don’t renew the restraining orders, who are in the most danger.”3.”

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Rachel Louise Snyder Quote: “Police departments across the country fail to discipline officers for the same crimes that civilians are arrested for every day. A study from Florida between 2008 and 2012 noted that while only about 1% of officers remained on the job following a failed drug test, and 7% remained after a theft, nearly 30% of officers with domestic violence complaints were still employed in their same positions a year later.”

7. “Police departments across the country fail to discipline officers for the same crimes that civilians are arrested for every day. A study from Florida between 2008 and 2012 noted that while only about 1% of officers remained on the job following a failed drug test, and 7% remained after a theft, nearly 30% of officers with domestic violence complaints were still employed in their same positions a year later.”

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Rachel Louise Snyder Quote: “Read any news story today about domestic violence homicide and you’re likely to see some version of the question why didn’t she leave? What you almost surely won’t see is why was he violent?”

8. “Read any news story today about domestic violence homicide and you’re likely to see some version of the question why didn’t she leave? What you almost surely won’t see is why was he violent?”

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Rachel Louise Snyder Quote: “This Person You Love Will Take Your Life.”

9. “This Person You Love Will Take Your Life.”

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Rachel Louise Snyder Quote: “Campbell says twelve hundred abused women are killed every year in the United States.1 That figure does not count children.”

10. “Campbell says twelve hundred abused women are killed every year in the United States.1 That figure does not count children.”

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Rachel Louise Snyder Quote: “It’s not women who need to learn violence; it’s men who need to learn nonviolence.”

11. “It’s not women who need to learn violence; it’s men who need to learn nonviolence.”

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Rachel Louise Snyder Quote: “You could certainly say about half the cases of mass shootings are extreme incidents of domestic violence.” In other words, it’s not that domestic violence predicts mass shootings. It’s that mass shootings, more than half the time, are domestic violence.”

12. “You could certainly say about half the cases of mass shootings are extreme incidents of domestic violence.” In other words, it’s not that domestic violence predicts mass shootings. It’s that mass shootings, more than half the time, are domestic violence.”

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Rachel Louise Snyder Quote: “He began to understand violence as the result of a belief system men all seemed to share, which told them they were the authority in their lives, that they were to be respected, obeyed. Top of the human hierarchy. It was a belief system that not only distanced them from people around them, but also limited their range, kept them boxed in by their own narrow ideas of what men could be and how men could behave.”

13. “He began to understand violence as the result of a belief system men all seemed to share, which told them they were the authority in their lives, that they were to be respected, obeyed. Top of the human hierarchy. It was a belief system that not only distanced them from people around them, but also limited their range, kept them boxed in by their own narrow ideas of what men could be and how men could behave.”

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Rachel Louise Snyder Quote: “Why victims stay isn’t the question we need to be asking. Rather, I think a better question is: how do we protect this person? No qualifiers. No musing about why she stayed or what she might appear to be doing or not doing. Just one simple question: how do we protect her?”

14. “Why victims stay isn’t the question we need to be asking. Rather, I think a better question is: how do we protect this person? No qualifiers. No musing about why she stayed or what she might appear to be doing or not doing. Just one simple question: how do we protect her?”

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Rachel Louise Snyder Quote: “The very fact that intimate partner violence is so often addressed in civil court, rather than criminal court, gives insight into how we as a society still view it.”

15. “The very fact that intimate partner violence is so often addressed in civil court, rather than criminal court, gives insight into how we as a society still view it.”

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Rachel Louise Snyder Quote: “The average batterer, Adams told me, “is more likable than his victim, because domestic violence affects victims a lot more than it affects batterers.”

16. “The average batterer, Adams told me, “is more likable than his victim, because domestic violence affects victims a lot more than it affects batterers.”

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Rachel Louise Snyder Quote: “Between 2000 and 2006, 3,200 American soldiers were killed; during that same period, domestic homicide in the United States claimed 10,600 lives.”

17. “Between 2000 and 2006, 3,200 American soldiers were killed; during that same period, domestic homicide in the United States claimed 10,600 lives.”

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Rachel Louise Snyder Quote: “Victims who side with their abusers during police calls do so not out of instability, as many law enforcement officers assume, but out of a measured calculation toward their future safety.”

18. “Victims who side with their abusers during police calls do so not out of instability, as many law enforcement officers assume, but out of a measured calculation toward their future safety.”

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Rachel Louise Snyder Quote: “They stay in abusive marriages because they understand something that most of us do not, something from the inside out, something that seems to defy logic: as dangerous as it is in their homes, it is almost always far more dangerous to leave.”

19. “They stay in abusive marriages because they understand something that most of us do not, something from the inside out, something that seems to defy logic: as dangerous as it is in their homes, it is almost always far more dangerous to leave.”

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Rachel Louise Snyder Quote: “He talks about how he grew up believing women served men because he watched his grandmother and his female cousins all make the food and bring the food and clean up the food, and the boys sat watching the ball game. What were they all being taught? And now he’s a grown man and he knows, because he had to learn, how to feed himself, how to make his own damn omelet. “I had no concept of appreciation,” he says of his past girlfriends, of Kelly. “I never had a bad partner. I had a bad attitude.”

20. “He talks about how he grew up believing women served men because he watched his grandmother and his female cousins all make the food and bring the food and clean up the food, and the boys sat watching the ball game. What were they all being taught? And now he’s a grown man and he knows, because he had to learn, how to feed himself, how to make his own damn omelet. “I had no concept of appreciation,” he says of his past girlfriends, of Kelly. “I never had a bad partner. I had a bad attitude.”

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Rachel Louise Snyder Quote: “Domestic violence health and medical costs top more than $8 billion annually for taxpayers and cause victims to lose more than eight million8 workdays each year.”

21. “Domestic violence health and medical costs top more than $8 billion annually for taxpayers and cause victims to lose more than eight million8 workdays each year.”

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Rachel Louise Snyder Quote: “I can’t tell you how many abusers I’ve heard bemoaning their inability to stop loving the same women they assaulted so severely it landed them in prison.”

22. “I can’t tell you how many abusers I’ve heard bemoaning their inability to stop loving the same women they assaulted so severely it landed them in prison.”

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Rachel Louise Snyder Quote: “Slowly, I was learning of the bottomless capacity for both human cruelty and human survival.”

23. “Slowly, I was learning of the bottomless capacity for both human cruelty and human survival.”

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Rachel Louise Snyder Quote: “As more women began to attend Sinclair’s community organizing events, some of the men Sinclair had already helped organize would complain about the women, and say women can’t be organized. Organization was for men. “Five years I’d been doing this city-wide organization,” Sinclair told me of his time in Detroit, “and that was all destroyed when these men said, ‘You can’t organize girls.”

24. “As more women began to attend Sinclair’s community organizing events, some of the men Sinclair had already helped organize would complain about the women, and say women can’t be organized. Organization was for men. “Five years I’d been doing this city-wide organization,” Sinclair told me of his time in Detroit, “and that was all destroyed when these men said, ‘You can’t organize girls.”

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Rachel Louise Snyder Quote: “Far from being paradoxical, I eventually understood that we all embody these extremes.”

25. “Far from being paradoxical, I eventually understood that we all embody these extremes.”

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Rachel Louise Snyder Quote: “He says how they all learned as little kids that boys don’t cry. “Our dad or mom said, ‘Don’t cry now. Shake it off,’ right? Why not? It hurt. Why not cry? What’s wrong with crying? Boys didn’t get to cry because they were in pain, falling on gravel, but my daughter? Man. She was scooped up and held and kissed, and my son was told to stop crying.” He shakes his head. “Now, with the education I got, I’m like, ‘Come here, little man. I feel like crying with you. I know that hurt. It’s okay. Cry.”

26. “He says how they all learned as little kids that boys don’t cry. “Our dad or mom said, ‘Don’t cry now. Shake it off,’ right? Why not? It hurt. Why not cry? What’s wrong with crying? Boys didn’t get to cry because they were in pain, falling on gravel, but my daughter? Man. She was scooped up and held and kissed, and my son was told to stop crying.” He shakes his head. “Now, with the education I got, I’m like, ‘Come here, little man. I feel like crying with you. I know that hurt. It’s okay. Cry.”

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Rachel Louise Snyder Quote: “In the United States, it wasn’t that there were no problems – poverty, disease, and natural disasters all happened here, too – but I’d forgotten how possible it was to live where, if you had the desire and the means, you could fairly easily insulate yourself from a lot of these problems.”

27. “In the United States, it wasn’t that there were no problems – poverty, disease, and natural disasters all happened here, too – but I’d forgotten how possible it was to live where, if you had the desire and the means, you could fairly easily insulate yourself from a lot of these problems.”

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Rachel Louise Snyder Quote: “Violent men are aware that they are violent and even take pride in the manliness of it to their friends,” he said. “But, they will often deny that their violence is actually violent when questioned. Their denial allows violent men to minimize the impact of their violence on their victims, blame them for it, and ask their families and friends to collude with them by approving it.”

28. “Violent men are aware that they are violent and even take pride in the manliness of it to their friends,” he said. “But, they will often deny that their violence is actually violent when questioned. Their denial allows violent men to minimize the impact of their violence on their victims, blame them for it, and ask their families and friends to collude with them by approving it.”

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Rachel Louise Snyder Quote: “Men can relate to wanting their own daughters kept safe, kept from men like themselves, but somehow it doesn’t extend to their partners.”

29. “Men can relate to wanting their own daughters kept safe, kept from men like themselves, but somehow it doesn’t extend to their partners.”

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Rachel Louise Snyder Quote: “Though in many states today, still, victims are barred from using their long histories of enduring violence at the hands of their partners in their own defense. One woman I spoke with who is incarcerated in North Carolina for first degree murder, Latina Ray, says she endured over a decade of abuse. Her partner beat her so badly that she lost the sight in her right eye entirely, yet her long history of victimization with him was never used in her case.”

30. “Though in many states today, still, victims are barred from using their long histories of enduring violence at the hands of their partners in their own defense. One woman I spoke with who is incarcerated in North Carolina for first degree murder, Latina Ray, says she endured over a decade of abuse. Her partner beat her so badly that she lost the sight in her right eye entirely, yet her long history of victimization with him was never used in her case.”

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Rachel Louise Snyder Quote: “Russia, which in 2017 decriminalized any domestic violence that doesn’t result in bodily injury.”

31. “Russia, which in 2017 decriminalized any domestic violence that doesn’t result in bodily injury.”

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Rachel Louise Snyder Quote: “He assumed the research would support his theory that abusers did far less of the housework and childcare. But Adams was shocked to find that both men did about the same amount in each home, 21%.1 Where the two groups tended to differ was that the non-abusers knew they were getting a good deal and appreciated and acknowledged their wives’ double shifts, whereas the abusers would say things like, “I do a lot more than most men, but does she appreciate that?”

32. “He assumed the research would support his theory that abusers did far less of the housework and childcare. But Adams was shocked to find that both men did about the same amount in each home, 21%.1 Where the two groups tended to differ was that the non-abusers knew they were getting a good deal and appreciated and acknowledged their wives’ double shifts, whereas the abusers would say things like, “I do a lot more than most men, but does she appreciate that?”

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Rachel Louise Snyder Quote: “This is perhaps the most profound lesson of travel, that you don’t really know the place and culture you’ve come from until you’ve left it.”

33. “This is perhaps the most profound lesson of travel, that you don’t really know the place and culture you’ve come from until you’ve left it.”

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