I've always had a fondness for the Gothic. That's what kind of stories attract me: Why do people do bad things?
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My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.
Tags: scars, relationships, psychological-abuse, parents-and-children, parents, parenthood, mother, mental-abuse, loyalty, love-lost, limits, limitations, indoctrination, hurt, heartbroken, heartbreak, harm, father, family, false-beliefs, emotional-abuse, divorce, didn-t-mean-it, childhood-memories, childhood, broken-home, brainwashing, bad-parenting, abusive, abuse
It is always consoling to think of suicide; it's what gets one through many a bad night.
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That's always been part of my goal - to show the dark side of women. Men write about bad men all the time, and they're called antiheroes.
Tags: bad, men, time, women
Women are just as violently minded as men are, but with men, it's taken for granted.
Tags: women-are, just, men, women
I think that women really entwine with the people that they become close to in a way that men don't - and so, when they are forced to disentwine, you can't remove the vines without doing some damage.
Tags: men, people, you, women
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