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It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

— Sally Kempton Before It's Too Late: Helping Women in Controlling or Abusive Relationships (1995)

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as quoted in Before It's Too Late: Helping Women in Controlling or Abusive Relationships (1995) by Robert J. Ackerman, Ph.D. and Susan E. Pickering, Health Communications, Inc.; and in Feminist Critical Policy Analysis II: A Perspective from Post-Secondary Education (1997) by Catherine Marshall, Falmer Press.

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