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For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not usually bring forth their finest qualities.
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powerlessness
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain men--for certain people--to be able to provide their loved ones with material comforts and protection at all times. I forget how dangerously reduced some men can feel when that basic ability has been stripped from them. I forget how much that matters to men, what it represents.
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providers
powerlessness
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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8e4edc0
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I am so tired - so tired of being of being whirled on through all these phases of my life, in which nothing abides by me, no creature, no place; it is like the circle in which the victims of earthly passion eddy continually.
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exhaustion
powerlessness
tried
power
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair play
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fate
serenity
powerlessness
surrender
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Thomas Hardy |
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You can't go anywhere if you just resign yourself to being attacked. A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person.
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aomame
haruki-murakami
powerlessness
self-defense
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Haruki Murakami |
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Power is confusing for us, perhaps even terrifying, because our relationship with it had an unfortunate beginning. Someone in a position of power over us used and abused us...It seems as if power were something to be wielded, always at someone's expense, usually our own.
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abuse-survivors
abuse-of-authority
abuse-of-power
abuse-of-trust
abusive-parenting
misuse-of-power
parental-authority
survivor-of-abuse
child-sexual-abuse-survivor
child-abuse
survivor
healing
powerlessness
powerless
power
child-sexual-abuse
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Maureen Brady |
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When we are ready to let go of our old controls, we admit that we were powerless over the incest or abuse...We have often thought, 'If only I could have stopped it,' but we could not have stopped it. We let go of the 'if only' now and sit still with our stark powerlessness...In our surrender to powerlessness, we touch ourselves with the gift of truth.
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abuse-survivors
letting-go
truth
survivor-of-abuse
survivors-of-abuse
child-sexual-abuse-survivor
if-only
child-abuse
survivor
healing
abuse-recovery
powerlessness
powerless
child-sexual-abuse
incest
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Maureen Brady |
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But what use was the semblance of power without the substance?
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pravdo
semblance-of-power
show-off
queen-elizabeth-i
powerlessness
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Alison Weir |
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"The textbooks also fail to show how the continuous Indian wars have reverberated through our culture. Carleton Beals has written that "our acquiescence in Indian dispossession has molded the American character." As soon as Natives were no longer conflict partners, their image deteriorated in the minds of many whites. Kupperman has shown how this process unfolded in Virginia after the Indian defeat in the 1640s: "It was the ultimate powerlessness of the Indians, not their racial inferiority, which made it possible to see them as people without rights." Natives who had been "ingenious," "industrious," and "quick of apprehension" in 1610 now became "sloathfull and idle, vitious, melancholy, [and] slovenly." This is another example of the process of cognitive dissonance."
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natives
indians
powerlessness
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James W. Loewen |
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I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling, of psychic numbing, that characterizes the end of the millennium. If we can't act on knowledge, then we can't survive without ignorance.
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powerlessness
knowledge
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Ruth Ozeki |
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910e9f8
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However, her own lack of power had taught her a curious appreciation for small joys and hard beauties and for the simple, changeless patterns of life and death.
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powerlessness
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Barbara Hambly |
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The beating soon had Laurelene nearly senseless. The carbineer began to tear away her hempcloth robe and when she tried to crawl away he dragged her back and punched her face until she lay unresisting, her legs bare and apart. He's done this before, so this is what it's like to be violated, she thought as he settled down on top of her with a long, shuddering sigh. Anything, anything, just no more beating, she thought, her eyes closed.
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rape
learned-helplessness
violated
sexual-violence
powerlessness
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Sean McMullen |
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f0cde7a
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I understand,' said Melanie. An ancient, female look passed between them; they were poor women pensioners, planets round a male sun.
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poverty
powerlessness
patriarchy
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Angela Carter |