n I was twenty-one..."(Quindlen 27). Fran goes onto to say, "There was never any discernible reason for why we moved; we never moved up, or even down, just from one shabby two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn to another" (Quindlen 27).
             Fran does, however, hold a respectable job, while in reality most women in abused relationships do not. (Ochberg 3). A job is a sign of independence a symbol of self-worth and women that hold respectable positions usually would not stand for being degraded at home. Ironically, Fran Benedetto is a nurse, a very good one as a matter of fact. "I didn't look that way all the time. Not at the hospital, where I was never afraid, even with the blood and screams and the crazies"(Quindlen 35). It would be thought, a woman who dealt with abuse victims on a day to day basis and treated bruises worse than her own but inevitable if she stayed, would not allow herself to be abused for so long.
             Pregnancy also plays an important role in abuse, and a shocking twenty-f
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