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Everybody is not a victim.

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor.

I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes.

I'm not a victim, and I don't need to behave like one.

If she was a victim of any kind, she was a victim of her friends.

The idea of victimage is a dreadful thing, a product of a safe middle-class perspective. What people who are not safe develop is a tragic wisdom, a wisdom that embraces contradiction and seeks a sense of balance rather than going to extremes.

You can definitely become a victim and let people completely destroy your life.

I want people to understand that tragedy and trial does not necessarily mean that you are a victim.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.