Angela Carmela
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“But I understood this one fact: that a thousand times I had been called Nigger, and laughed, and now I could not laugh.”
― Educated
― Educated
“But just because you have silenced a memory does not mean you are free of it.”
― The Next Person You Meet in Heaven
― The Next Person You Meet in Heaven
“We humans make so much of 'our' time on earth. We measure it, we compare it, we put it in our tombstones.”
― The Next Person You Meet in Heaven
― The Next Person You Meet in Heaven
“The typical abusive man works to maintain a positive public image (..) Most abusive men put on a charming face for their communities, creating a sharp split between their public image and their private treatment of women and children. He may be (..) assaultive toward his partner or children but nonviolent and nonthreatening with everyone else. (..) The pain of this contrast can eat away at a woman.”
― Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
― Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
“positive liberty is self-mastery—the rule of the self, by the self. To have positive liberty, he explained, is to take control of one’s own mind; to be liberated from irrational fears and beliefs, from addictions, superstitions and all other forms of self-coercion.”
― Educated
― Educated
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