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"Threatening a current or former partner isn't passion, or love, or heartache. It's violence, it's abuse and it's a crime."
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"Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it really isn't about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing."

"We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families who have been through hell."

"Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech."

"I'd never felt so helpless - so hopeless - in my life as I did there. To be completely under someone's power, with no one to turn to for help, to make someone feel like they're at fault for you hurting them . . . I realized that was exactly what I'd done to Carly. That hangs over me every day."

"You couldn't not notice the bruise on the side of her face. Or the hickey under her chin."

"We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation."

"Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse."

"Democracy is an abuse of statistics."

"Unfortunately, the current format for this lottery program are subject to fraud and abuse and leave our nation exposed to those who may seek to do harm on American soil."
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"Dear Girls Across the Globe,Let's stop body-shaming each other with hurtful comments about how another girl looks or doesn't look. We are all beautiful in our own unique way; so let's speak about each other with the dignity that we would want others to have when they speak about us."

"We need feminism because degrading phrases like 'walk of shame' are commonplace in our social vocabulary, yet these are only applied to women; whereas men in the same situation are praised by their peers and seen as nothing more than ' a guy who got lucky', by the rest of society."

"To every guy who tries to say that we have already achieved equality for the sexes, if this were true, you wouldn't be told to 'man up', 'be a man', 'stop being a p*#%y', 'harden the fuck up', 'toughen up', 'boys don't cry', 'don't be such a girl', 'stop being a wimp'. As long as this type of language still exists in our society, then gender equality, my friends, has in fact not been achieved after all."

"The difference between a professional victim and an empowered person is NOT what has happened to them, but the way in which they REACT to what has happened to them."

"Don't ever let others impose their self-limiting beliefs on to you. They don't have the courage and spirit that you do."

"Heartfelt communicators make such a difference in the lives of others through their authentic depth and sincere expression."

"A man's level of 'toughness' (as assessed by other men), will determine whether or not his girlfriend will get hit on by other guys right in front of him in public places. If you're deemed a 'p*#%y' by other guys and they want your girlfriend, even in your company she'll be considered 'fair game'."
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