"I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from women, usually when I failed to respond to their advances."

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Source : "Spare me from the whining women who are giving feminism a bad name" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2012.

Julie Burchill

#Men Quotes #Abuse Quotes #Violence Quotes

“She loved attention. It was like a glass of the best champagneâ€”bubbly and intoxicatingâ€”and as with champagne, she always wanted more of it. Still, she didnâ€™t want to seem like an easy mark. â€œIf you must know, Iâ€™ve come to join a convent,â€ Evie said, testing him.”
“One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.”
“Saying slavery was the cause of secession isn't politically correct; it's correct correct.”

Source : "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. December 21, 2010.
“My priorities now a a musician are so different now than they were as a kid. Everyone wants to be a rock star, and I wanted that too; I wanted to be on magazines and be running around the world and having all the fun.”
“Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.”
“To be a teacher you have to have a very giving, selfless personality. I don't think I'm that selfless and giving.”
“The problem with our churches today is that the lead pastor is some sissy boy who wears cardigan sweaters, has The Carpenters dialed in on his iPod, gets his hair cut at a salon instead of a barber shop, hasnâ€™t been to an Ultimate Fighting match, works out on an elliptical machine instead of going to isolated regions of Russia like in Rocky IV in order to harvest lumber with his teeth, and generally swishes around like Jack from Threeâ€™s Company whenever Mr. Roper was around.”
“I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.”

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