Quotes / May 14, 2025

You don’t go to the hardware store for milk.

I think men’s behavior toward women is generally brutal and high-handed …
In a heterosexual couple the man is biding
his time — his own time.
—Marguerite Duras

I am because I am! means I exist because I exist and need no justification whatsoever for my existence. The fact of my being is enough. I require no terms, conditions or permits from myself or anyone else. I live, and in living I am fully entitled to go on living. My life, my existence, my being is not predicated on standards, values, achievements or accomplishments. I am, not because of books I write, money I earn, degrees conferred, children I have—I am with or without these accouterments. These things and people are not me! I do not exist because of them. Relative to my life, they exist because of me.

— Compassion and Self Hate, Theodore Isaac Rubin

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You’ll know you made the right decision by leaving your abuser when your spirit is at ease even in the midst of chaos. While the heart and mind may still be reeling from the trauma of the abuse, the soul quietly breathes a sigh of relief, and says, “Thank you.”

Oath, Magnified

“How do I feel?” …
If I feel bad, then is there anything
I can do to make myself feel better? …
I must fight to give myself the right to feel good
about myself and to feel good mood-wise,
regardless of any accomplishment
or nonaccomplishment whatsoever.

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The readiness is all.

—Hamlet, William Shakespeare

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You don’t go to the hardware store for milk.

I think men’s behavior toward women is generally brutal and high-handed …
In a heterosexual couple the man is biding
his time — his own time.
—Marguerite Duras

Oath, Final

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You’ll know you made the right decision by leaving your abuser when your spirit is at ease even in the midst of chaos. While the heart and mind may still be reeling from the trauma of the abuse, the soul quietly breathes a sigh of relief, and says, “Thank you.”

Oath, Magnified

“How do I feel?” …
If I feel bad, then is there anything
I can do to make myself feel better? …
I must fight to give myself the right to feel good
about myself and to feel good mood-wise,
regardless of any accomplishment
or nonaccomplishment whatsoever.

The readiness is all. —Hamlet, William Shakespeare Read More

I think men’s behavior toward women is generally brutal and high-handed … In a heterosexual couple the man is biding his time — his own time. —Marguerite Duras

You’ll know you made the right decision by leaving your abuser when your spirit is at ease even in the midst of chaos. While the heart and mind may still be reeling from the trauma of the abuse, the soul quietly breathes a sigh of relief, and says, “Thank you.”

“How do I feel?” … If I feel bad, then is there anything I can do to make myself feel better? … I must fight to give myself the right to feel good about myself and to feel good mood-wise, regardless of any accomplishment or nonaccomplishment whatsoever.

The readiness is all.

—Hamlet, William Shakespeare

Read More

I think men’s behavior toward women is generally brutal and high-handed …
In a heterosexual couple the man is biding
his time — his own time.
—Marguerite Duras

“How do I feel?” …
If I feel bad, then is there anything
I can do to make myself feel better? …
I must fight to give myself the right to feel good
about myself and to feel good mood-wise,
regardless of any accomplishment
or nonaccomplishment whatsoever.