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“It's been so long, I don't remember what okay feels like.”
“The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever. Even if people employ actual violence, they are not to be violent in turn. That would ...”
“Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.”
“She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead.”
“Man is complete in himself. When they go into the world, the world will disagree with them. That is inevitable. The world hates Individualism. But that is not to trouble them. They are to be calm a...”
“To those who abuse: the sin is yours, the crime is yours, and the shame is yours. To those who protect the perpetrators: blaming the victims only masks the evil within, making you as guilty as thos...”
“Playing the victim role: Manipulator portrays him- or herself as a victim of circumstance or of someone else's behavior in order to gain pity, sympathy or evoke compassion and thereby get something...”
“We must affirm freedom and responsibility without denying that we are the product of circumstance, and must affirm that we are the product of circumstance without denying that we have the freedom t...”
“Accepting necessary conflicts for the sake of improving the lives of children is the only fundamental moral crusade that matters.”
“I will feel no guilt on shutting my door to those who didn't listen.”
“However much he denied it, he always hoped that they'd be kinder to each other one day, like people who were grateful to survive something instead of people still fighting to survive. Wherever that...”
“But yeah, like everyone else in our family, they could go from zero to murderous in a fucking heartbeat.”
“The sickest part of this whole story is that I tried really hard to make up for what I thought I did to her, after she started talking to me again. I loaned her money whenever she needed it, I gave...”
“Even though he had admitted to her that he used to watch me shower through a hole in the bathroom wall back when I was thirteen. She blamed us both for what we had "done" to her. But it sounds like...”
“We say "misogynist"; I've written that "misogyny kills," but the world falls flat on your tongue - it's too academic sounding, not raw or horrifying enough to relay the truth of what it means.”
“Most men and women born in the fifties or earlier were socialized to believe that marriages and/or committed romantic bonds of any kind should take precedence over all other relationships. Had I be...”
“No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge.”
“I knew that I was the least-loved child because I was a girl and because my mother had died giving birth to me.”
“In the early 1970s, racial and gender discrimination was still prevalent. The easy camaraderie prevailing in the operating room evaporated at the completion of surgical procedures. There was an uns...”
“That night, when the creature sleeps, when he sleeps, the mother escapes into her daughters room. She tells her daughter that the creatures afraid of her having too much love, too much heart. She t...”
