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"Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline."
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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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"We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families who have been through hell."
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"Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech."
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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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"You couldn't not notice the bruise on the side of her face. Or the hickey under her chin."
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"We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation."
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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."
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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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"Democracy is an abuse of statistics."
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"I would like to say that what Mel Phillips was doing was not sexual harassment but more sexual abuse of children, because he was doing it in a sexual manner now that I look back on it."
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"I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place."
Faith
"The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity."
Folly
"Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong."
Music
"I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation."
God
"Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do."
People
"It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done."
People
"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
Time
"A woman's health is her capital."
Health
"Most mothers are instinctive philosophers."
Family
"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
Time
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