“Many of us find it hard to set boundaries and defend them because we fear doing so will cause rejection or abandonment.… — Adelyn Birch Copy Share Image
“I don't forgive him," I said. "Hell, no, you don't. And why should you? So he can feel better? Get on with… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
The world is a horrible place, but no one worries because we have all been pacified by anodyne television in which incorruptible… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual… — Ed Markey Copy Share Image
If, nevertheless, textbooks of pharmacology legitimately contain a chapter on drug abuse and drug addiction, then, by the same token, textbooks of… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Unable to maintain their government-granted monopoly, the powerful railroad interests turned to government to do the regulating and price-fixing which they were… — Dan Smoot Copy Share Image
“When he removed his robes, you could see the hundreds of scars and bruises that shamelessly decorated his body. Huge black bruises,… — L'Poni Baldwin Copy Share Image
As long as we see abusers as victims, or as out-of-control monsters, they will continue getting away with ruining lives. If we… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
My father died when I was 9 years old. The miserable condition of my family at that time is beyond description. My… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
Wrestling hurts. Your body's not meant to take that abuse. I've closed that door, but I don't know that I've locked it… — Stacy Keibler Copy Share Image
Even if I had money to invest I wouldn't invest it in oil companies - - or their bankers, suppliers, customers ...… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Women should know that love doesn't abuse you. It shouldn't hurt you. Love cannot be redefined into 'He only hit me once,… — Jahmene Douglas Copy Share Image
“God whispered, "You endured a lot. For that I am truly sorry, but grateful. I needed you to struggle to help so… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. On… — Claire Wolfe Copy Share Image
“I used to pray you know, pray to God that He would somehow stop it. All the nights of listening to my… — Emily Andrews Copy Share Image
Abuse counselors say of the abusive client: “When he looks at himself in the morning and sees his dirty face, he sets… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
Power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive. And it's important for the media to call to account people who… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Cheryl was aided in her search by the Internet. Each time she remembered a name that seemed to be important in her… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
In the real world, equal respect for all cultures doesn't translate into a rich mosaic of colorful and proud peoples interacting peacefully… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Many mothers are wholly ignorant of the almost universal prevalence of secret vice, or self-abuse among the young. Why hesitate to say… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
How can those who are invested with the power of government be prevented from the abuse of those powers as the means… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
Sit peacefully in a church and think of church history: witchburning perhaps, or child abuse, genocide, the amassing of disgusting wealth, the… — Kaz Cooke Copy Share Image
