"He said he loved more than any other women he's ever loved and I had a black eye to prove it."

Abuse, Violence, Illusion, Reality

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"He said he loved more than any other women he's ever loved and I had a black eye to prove it."

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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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"Staying in an abusive relationship for the fear of public judgment is like allowing to be buried alive to impress a coffin maker."

Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Tanzanian Author

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"The problem with depicting abusers as full-time monsters is that when a person is actually experiencing abuse in their own life, they'll think 'oh but he's the sweetest guy most of the time so he can't be an abuser ' or 'but he's not ALWAYS horrible, he's usually amazing, so he's not an abuser', and they'll make the mistake of thinking they mustn't really be being abused when they actually are."

Miya Yamanouchi, Japanese Author

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"An abuser isn't abusive 24/7. They usually demonstrate positive character traits most of the time. That's what makes the abuse so confusing when it happens, and what makes leaving so much more difficult."

Miya Yamanouchi, Japanese Author

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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."

Zora Neale Hurston, American Dramatist

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"To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status."

Catharine MacKinnon, American Activist

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"I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid."

Christopher Eccleston, English Actor

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"Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences."

Lindsay Lohan, American Actress

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"The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future."

Marya Mannes, American Journalist

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Elizabeth Wurtzel, American Writer

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"He said I'm the winning lottery ticket, like he's never meant anything more."

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"You make me feel like I am everywhere when I am right here, completely still with you."

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