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• The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Male domination, and the low and stigmatised status of women, cause teenage girls to engage in punishment of their bodies through eating… — Sheila Jeffreys
• Self-mutilation is a frightening barrier that keeps us from seeing a person who is lost, in pain, and in desperate need of… — Steven Levenkron
• Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth. — J. L. B. Smith
• Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation. — Donald Barthelme
• We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and… — Jeffrey Eugenides
• The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that… — Bell Hooks
• I hold the blade in trembling hands Prepare to make it, but Just then the phone rang, I never had the nerve… — Pink Floyd

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