"Ghettos and barrios and abusive homes and trauma……" — John Ortberg

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• When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for… — Kevyn Aucoin
• Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure… — Joyce Banda
• I want to say that nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification to do that. I didn't just… — Roseanne Barr
• When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any… — Glenn Beck
• When someone comes up to me and says, 'Mary, you helped save my marriage', or, 'Mary, you helped me get… — Mary J. Blige
• Some parents let their kids sleep at other people's houses, where they drink alcohol, watch TV for hours and God… — Amy Chua
• The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never… — Tatum O'Neal
• A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency,… — Ron Franscell
• As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet. — Wyndham Lewis
• Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. — Martin Luther
• In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are… — George Ryan
• There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger. — Pranab Mukherjee

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