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Abuse, Violence, Discrimination, Harm

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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

Abuse, Power, Control, Forgiveness

"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

Abuse, Judgment, Fear, Freedom

"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

Abuse, Awareness, Truth, Reality

"He was going to punish me now. He couldn't beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words."

Sherman Alexie, American Writer

Abuse, Word, Pain, Authority

"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

Abuse, Manipulation, Confusion, Relationship

"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

Abuse, Feeling, Want

"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

Abuse, Rules

"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

Abuse, School

"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

Abuse, Consequences, Disease

"I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals."

Richard Pryor, American Actor

Abuse, Animals, Suffering

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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."

"He was going to punish me now. He couldn't beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals."

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"Living in the past is a conscious or an unconscious choice made through a connection to the past."

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"Always make your familial environment a safe and inviting place."