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  1. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Committed: A Skeptic Makes

    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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  2. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Committed: A Skeptic Makes

    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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  3. Angela Carter _ The Magic Toyshop

    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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  4. Barbara Hambly _ Dragonsbane

    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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  5. Maureen Brady _ Beyond Survival: A Writing

    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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  6. Maureen Brady _ Beyond Survival: A Writing

    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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  7. James W. Loewen _ Lies My Teacher Told Me:

    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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  8. Ruth Ozeki _ My Year of Meats

    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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  9. Haruki Murakami _ 1Q84 #1-2

    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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  10. Alison Weir _ The Lady Elizabeth

    But what use was the semblance of power without the substance?
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