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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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"The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience."
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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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"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."
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"Over the past year, several cases of human rights abuses, specifically sexual exploitation and abuse, by individuals involved in U.N. peacekeeping operations have raised the suspicions of many Members of Congress and members of the International Relations Committee."
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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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"Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects."
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"Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline."
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"Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse."
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"But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them."
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"I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister."
Family
"Poetry and prayer are very similar."
Poetry
"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
"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
"Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have."
Personal
"I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety."
Abuse
"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
"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
"Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings."
Emotional
"My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy."
Energy
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