"The No. 1 reason women stay in abusive relationships - because they're not able to take care of themselves financially. It's also the No. 1 reason why women go back."
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"Ultimately, the reason why love and compassion bring the greatest happiness is simply that our nature cherishes them above all else. The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence."
"There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career."
"Nobody has ever given a reason why men should be their brother's keepers."
"With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff."
"The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent."
"I don't welcome leaks. There's a reason why these programs are classified."
"There's no reason why Americans should die when Afghans are perfectly capable of defending their own country."
"There are lots of reasons why a woman stays with a man, even when she's given up on changing him and can predict with certainty the shape that the rest of her life with him is going to take."
"There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes."
"Love is the reason why, even in suffering, we smile."
"One of the significant reasons why women who are trafficked and forced to work as prostitutes often don't want to come forward is because they're worried they'll be deported. If the police are certain that a woman has been trafficked and forced into prostitution, then perhaps we should automatically allow her citizenship."
"The reason why women grown bad are worse than men is because it is the best that turns to the worst."
"I came to teaching late - not until my forties - which is one reason why I'm not burned out."
"All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original."
"You're filled with so much life. Is there any reason why all of us are not full of life?"
"Talk to the man with the reasons why."
"Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love."
"But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by like. The reason why he knows about them is, that he is of them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of the thing."
"There is no good reason why we should fear the future, but there is every reason why we should face it seriously, neither hiding from ourselves the gravity of the problems before us nor fearing to approach these problems with the unbending, unflinching purpose to solve them aright."