Those fortunate enough to find or create a practical intersection of the three circles have the basis for a great work life.
[Domestic violence is] a carefully laid physical, financial and psychological trap.
The question, 'Why does she stay?' is code for some people for, 'It's her fault for staying,' as if [domestic violence] victims intentionally choose to fall in love with men intent upon destroying us.
I did not know that the first step in any domestic violence relationship is to seduce and charm the victim. I also did not know that the second step is to isolate the victim. The next step in the domestic violence pattern is to introduce the threat of violence and see how she reacts. We victims know something you [non-victims] usually don't. It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is to 'kill her'. Over 70% of domestic violence murders happens after the victim has ended the relationship.
It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is: kill her.
Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence.
If there is one thing the psychic taught me, it's that people and events are rarely who and what we think they are. They are more meaningful, more worth our attention-part of some finely choreographed, eternal dance that we would be wise to bow down before in gratitude and humility
The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.
I think that you have to believe. That's one of my biggest mantras, is believe. I wouldn't be here if I didn't believe in myself.
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.