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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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"It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it."
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"The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent."
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"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."
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"The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated."
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"The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience."
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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."
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"The interruption did nothing but earn her a similar slap, as I'm sure she knew it would. Sometimes I wondered if my mother spoke up at the wrong time on purpose. As often as we endured my father's abuse, she had to be aware that it wouldn't save me from a beating but simply earn her one as well. Or was it that sharing my fate made her feel less guilt-ridden about those things that happened to me?"
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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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"When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff."
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"If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding."
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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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"You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it."
Depression
"Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency."
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"I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it-going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert."
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"There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy."
World
"People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware."
People
"If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic."
Work
"People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness."
People
"The art of love is largely the art of persistence."
Love
"I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame."
Time
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