Orson Scott Card Quotes on Power dynamics
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It isn't a question of what you need. It never is. It's a question of what he needs. He needs to feel superior to you.
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Why are you raising your voice to me, if not to command?
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He had been a shark trying to gnaw away at the shore, sharp-toothed and dangerous, yet unworthy of his adversary
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You took sides!' So did you. The difference is that I sided with a man who was asking nothing more than to live with dignity... And you were siding with a woman who was using her connection with me as a way of raising herself above other people, which is foolish and self-destructive and I kept waiting for you to say something, for you to do anything to get [her] under control and you never did, not even when [he] was walking out on her because he couldn't take her psychotic hunger for control any longer