"Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it."

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I can't do it. I've been here before and it's not a room with a view. The only power I have is the negative power of withdrawal. If I don't withdraw I have no power at all. A relationship where one person has no power or negative power, isn't a relationship, it's the bond between master and slave.

— Jeanette Winterson