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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."
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"Abuse may consist of physical maltreatment or language that is belittling, discriminatory..."
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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."
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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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"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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"Threatening a current or former partner isn't passion, or love, or heartache. It's violence, it's abuse and it's a crime."
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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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"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."
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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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"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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"I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales."
Books
"My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy."
Energy
"When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light."
Life
"It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal."
Woman
"Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief."
Family
"Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings."
Emotional
"Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning."
Truth
"Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries."
Family
"I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety."
Abuse
"Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely."
Work
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