"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."

Abuse, Choice

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"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."

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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."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"This October, we renew the fight against domestic violence and abuse in America. Together, we can eliminate domestic violence from homes across the country and ensure that our children grow up in healthy, peaceful communities."

Lucille Roybal Allard, American Politician

Abuse, America, Children, Country

"Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects."

Chris Hedges, American Journalist

Abuse, Force, Rules, Theft

"What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?"

Sitting Bull, Lakotan Statesman

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"I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety."

Carol Ann Duffy, British Poet

Abuse, Anxiety, Now

"Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse."

Alan Greenspan, American Economist

Abuse, Fraud

"When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Abuse, Argument

"Let's face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can't resist."

Bob Uecker, American Athlete

Abuse, Living

"Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law."

Lamar S. Smith, American Politician

Abuse, Judges, Law

"The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms."

James F. Cooper, American Novelist

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"Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human."

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"The art of love is largely the art of persistence."

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