"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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"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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"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

"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

"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

Abuse, Earth, End, Future

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

Alan Greenspan, American Economist

Abuse, Fraud

"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."

James T. Walsh, American Politician

Abuse, Children, Duty, Exploitation

"The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about."

Jane Mayer, American Journalist

Abuse, Extreme, Military, Now

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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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about."

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"Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground."

"Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow."

"It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser."

"The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell."

"Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear."

"It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say."

"It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing."

"People can be slave-ships in shoes."

"It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it."

"When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous."