"As long as we see abusers as victims, or as out-of-control monsters, they will continue getting away with ruining lives. If we want abusers to change, we will have to require them to give up the luxury of exploitation."

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Source : Lundy Bancroft (2003). “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men”, p.157, Penguin

Lundy Bancroft

#Giving Up Quotes #Luxury Quotes #Long Quotes

“So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.”
“The craziest, most selfish act is to commit suicide. When you kill yourself, you kill others.”
“Complaints about the social irresponsibility of the intellectual typically concern the intellectual's tendency to marginalize herself, to move out from one community by interior identification of herself with some other community for example, another country or historical period. ... It is not clear that those who thus marginalize themselves can be criticized for social irresponsibility. One cannot be irresponsible toward a community of which one does not think of oneself as a member. Otherwise runaway slaves and tunnelers under the Berlin Wall would be irresponsible.”
“You get more out of doing a web series than a pilot, in some ways, especially when we were interviewing for writers. They had already seen what our show looked like, rather than something that we wrote that doesn't get picked up and they never see it.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film.”
“I'm officially middle-aged. I don't need drugs anymore, thank God. I can get the same effect just by standing up real fast.”
“I have always loved fashion, but I have no expertise in it besides being a model.”
“Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.”

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