“Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me”
Variant: A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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Abraham Lincoln618
16th President of the United States 1809–1865Related quotes
On feeling that she did not have a voice in her youth in “Interviews: Stacey Lee” https://bookpage.com/interviews/24281-stacey-lee-historical-fiction#.XflgiulKjcs in BookPage (Aug 2019)
“I'm so sorry
I didn’t want to hurt people, but I thought they were attacking me.”
James Alex Fields (1997)
2017 video interview with police reported on 4 December 2018 by Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-virginia-protests/driver-sobbed-after-learning-he-killed-woman-at-virginia-rally-idUSKBN1O32DI
“I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.”
Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl
Source: The Other Boleyn Girl
“I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) American serial killer
These people invite abuse ... By expecting to be hurt, do they subtly encourage it?
In a 1977 letter to girlfriend Elizabeth Kloepfer, quoted in Kendall, Elizabeth (September 1981). The Phantom Prince: My Life With Ted Bundy (Hardcover, 1st ed.). Seattle: Madrona. page 167
Tony Blair (1953) former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Trevor Kavanagh, "Blair: My big blunder", The Sun, 17 November 1997, p. 8.
Interview with John Humphrys on BBC TV's "On the Record", 16 November 1997.
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