“I found I could not not let the words flow.”

“I want to empasize that rape is about human beings, not statistics.”

“Half a lifetime ago, I was forced at knifepoint to a grabage dump and gang-raped.”

“The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.”

“What's the point of obsessing over cholesterol or bike helmets or even cigarettes when the biggest threats to our children are being released back into society every day? Yes, maybe 'some' of them ...”

“greater sexual freedom expands the grey area between consensual sex and rape”

“Writing is not about the voices in your head, but the voices that make the great leap to the page.”

“His voice, what he said, remains, and it is here, all of those voices are here, in what I am telling you. If in the beginning there was the word, then perhaps, with humility at the smallness of our...”