"It is fine to commiserate with a man about his bad experience with a previous partner, but the instant he uses her as an excuse to mistreat you, stop believing anything he tells you about that relationship and instead recognize it as a sign that he has problems with relating to women."

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Source : Lundy Bancroft (2003). “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men”, p.29, Penguin

Lundy Bancroft

#Believe Quotes #Men Quotes #Use Quotes

“I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.”
“He who believes in nothing still needs a girl to believe in him.”

Source : Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1988). “Life Lines: Quotations from the Work of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy”, p.1, Argo Books
“I've been called a "baby killer" and I've been told I should die and that I'm ruining women's lives. Those accusations hurt for sure - and I pause when such labels are applied to me - but because they come from people I don't necessarily respect, I have an easier time moving beyond them.”
“Naming is nice. It took me days before I was able to speak a name for my first child (what if people did not like it?), and I suspect we gave her a secret, second name as well, to keep her safe.”
“My grandfather taught me how important it is to have your eyes open,because you never know what's going to come your way.”
“I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad.”

Source : "“Narc” Interview: Ray Liotta". Hollywood Interview, www.hollywood.com.
“I am absolutely blessed and I'm very grateful for where I am today.”
“To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative â€” the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.”

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