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"There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse."

Charlie Sheen, American Actor

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"Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline."

Harriet Beecher Stowe, American Author

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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."

Crystal Woods, American Poet

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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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"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

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"When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Abuse, Argument

"Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects."

Chris Hedges, American Journalist

Abuse, Force, Rules, Theft

"Crawling up into daddy's lapwhen dad was stillDADDYnodding my head against his chest soaking in the comfort of his heartLISTENINGto the thump...thumpsomewhere beneath muscleand breastbone I remember his armstheir sublimeENCIRCLINGand the shawdow of his voice"I love you, little girl.Put away your bad dreams.Daddy's here"I put them away, Until Daddy became my nightmare that one that cameHOMEfrom work everyday and insteadof picking me up, chased me farfaraway."

Ellen Hopkins, American Novelist

Abuse, Trauma, Innocence, Betrayal

"Democracy is an abuse of statistics."

Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian Poet

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