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“The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.”
“Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told the truth about what really went on in your family, a long bony...”
“The religious right sees every group trying to achieve equality with them as a threat, because if they become equal to them, THEY won't be able to abuse their human rights anymore. Giving other peo...”
“When a stranger on the street makes a sexual comment, he is making a private assessment of me public. And though Ive never been seriously worried that I would be attacked, it does make me feel ungu...”
“In a healthy relationship, vulnerability is wonderful. It leads to increased intimacy and closer bonds. When a healthy person realizes that he or she hurt you, they feel remorse and they make amend...”
“In the Mars-and-Venus-gendered universe, men want power and women want emotional attachment and connection. On this planet nobody really has the opportunity to know love since it is power and not l...”
“Power is confusing for us, perhaps even terrifying, because our relationship with it had an unfortunate beginning. Someone in a position of power over us used and abused usIt seems as if power were...”
“And then there were men who were violently afraid of losing to a woman, the scariest men in the world. They become dictators, heads of state, bureaucrats, men with deadly weapons, they were everywh...”
“Dont ever feel bad for making a decision about your own life that upsets other people. You are not responsible for their happiness. Youre responsible for your own happiness. Anyone who wants you to...”
“The woman knows from living with the abusive man that there are no simple answers. Friends say: Hes mean. But she knows many ways in which he has been good to her. Friends say: He treats you that w...”
“The manic relief that comes from the fantasy that we can with one savage slash cut the chains of the past and rise like a phoenix, free of all history, is generally a tipping point into insanity, a...”
“The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil.”
“Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.”
“Woe to him who offends a patient man who has just reached his limit.”
“There is a way of reacting to insult that gives people the impression that you want more. I don't know what it is, but I seem to have mastered it.”
“Dear World,I exist.Deal with it.”
“The very few among us who have earned the title psychopath, are the ones who deny or destroy their inner voice, their conscience: so that they are free to prey upon whom they wish with exuberance a...”
“If you do not achieve your God-given goals, it does not mean God has not given the power. It rather means you have taken His power for granted!”
“If one abuses or neglects internal powers, external forces will act accordingly.”
“power happily walks hand in hand with abuse”
