--- title: Halle Berry Shares Message For Domestic Violence Survivors description: Halle Berry borrowed the powerful words of a poet to show her support for the survivors of domestic violence and abuse on social media. canonical: https://time.com/4530821/halle-berry-domestic-violence-message/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-13T21:38:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:03:35.901Z og:title: Halle Berry Shares Powerful Message For Domestic Violence Survivors og:description: 'My #WCW goes to all my QUEENS who have suffered any form of domestic violence' og:url: https://time.com/4530821/halle-berry-domestic-violence-message/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9956fb095101cd4c/6988aa09bc6cfcaf3c3def0f/halle-berry-domestic-violence-message.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Fallout 4 Launch - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Halle Berry Shares Powerful Message For Domestic Violence Survivors twitter:description: 'My #WCW goes to all my QUEENS who have suffered any form of domestic violence' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9956fb095101cd4c/6988aa09bc6cfcaf3c3def0f/halle-berry-domestic-violence-message.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Halle Berry Shares Powerful Message For Domestic Violence Survivors > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Michael Tran/FilmMagic) Michael Tran—FilmMagic/Getty Images by [Lindsay Kimble / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Lindsay Kimble / People Contributor Oct 13, 2016 9:38 PM UTC [Halle Berry](http://people.com/tag/halle-berry) borrowed the powerful words of a poet to show her support for the survivors of domestic violence and abuse [on social media](https://www.instagram.com/p/BLe-2lmhVnm/) on Wednesday. Alongside an image of herself wearing an intricate crown, Berry wrote, “My #WCW goes to all my QUEENS who have suffered any form of domestic violence. I think this quote captures it perfectly.” The short poem, penned by [Michael E. Reid](https://just-mike-the-poet.myshopify.com/), read, “Dear women, Sometimes you’ll just be too much woman. Too smart, too beautiful, too strong. Too much of something. That makes a man feel like less of a man, which will start making you feel like you have to be less of a woman.” “The biggest mistake you can make is removing jewels from your crown to make it easier for a man to carry. When this happens, I need you to understand, you do not need a smaller crown…” the poem continued. “You need a man with bigger hands.” Berry tagged the Jenesse Center in the post, which is [a domestic violence program](https://www.crowdrise.com/JenesseCenter-PurplePurse2016) in Los Angeles. The actress is helping raise awareness for the Jenesse Center’s Purple Purse Challenge, a fundraising competition involving domestic violence benefit charities. Involved organizations compete to raise the most money, which goes toward providing resources that help survivors escape dangerous situations, according [to the program’s website](https://www.crowdrise.com/PurplePurseChallengeDivisionI). Participating groups include [Hope’s Door](http://hopesdoorny.org/),[Center for Women and Families Inc.](https://www.thecenteronline.org/), and [Wings Program](http://wingsprogram.com/services/). Berry has been outspoken about her experience with domestic violence, telling PEOPLE in 1996 that a former boyfriend [once hit her so hard](http://people.com/celebrity/halle-berry-says-she-still-struggles-following-domestic-abuse/) that her eardrum was punctured. She further revealed last year [during a speech at the Jenesee Center](http://people.com/celebrity/halle-berry-says-she-still-struggles-following-domestic-abuse/), “I saw my mother battered and beaten many years of my life and I felt helpless.” “And that’s what connects me to this organization,” she continued. “I have an understanding, a knowing. I feel like I have something that I can impart to these women. It seems like I’ve overcome it, but I really haven’t. In the quiet of my mind, I still struggle. So while I’m helping these women, I’m helping myself through it, too. And that’s largely why I’m here.” _This_ [_article_](http://people.com/movies/message-to-domestic-abuse-survivors/) _originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://www.people.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4530821/halle-berry-domestic-violence-message/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4530821/halle-berry-domestic-violence-message/"},"headline":"Halle Berry Shares Powerful Message For Domestic Violence Survivors","datePublished":"2016-10-13T21:38:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:03:35.901Z","description":"'My #WCW goes to all my QUEENS who have suffered any form of domestic violence'","url":"https://time.com/4530821/halle-berry-domestic-violence-message/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9956fb095101cd4c/6988aa09bc6cfcaf3c3def0f/halle-berry-domestic-violence-message.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lindsay Kimble / People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9956fb095101cd4c/6988aa09bc6cfcaf3c3def0f/halle-berry-domestic-violence-message.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Fallout 4 Launch - Arrivals","caption":"Fallout 4 Launch - Arrivals","creditText":"Michael Tran—FilmMagic/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4530821/halle-berry-domestic-violence-message/","name":"Halle Berry Shares Powerful Message For Domestic Violence Survivors"}}]}] ```