61 quotes found
“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”
“Roman ignored her and took her ankles and flipped them purposefully, but because of her hands she could not turn all the way and ended up with her legs scissored unintuitively, and suddenly things ...”
“The silence was killing me.And that's all there ever was. Silence. It was all I knew. Keep quiet. Pretend nothing had happened, that nothing was wrong. And look how well that was turning out.”
“The 21st century has certainly seen the rape of women in wartime, but it has long been treated as an atrocious war crime, which most armies try to prevent and the rest deny and conceal. But for the...”
“My mom doesn't say anything. I don't say anything. Neither of us knows yet what you should say when rape victims blame themselves: 'It was not your fault.' It was not your fault, even if you were d...”
“It was a catch-22: If you didnt put the trauma behind you, you couldnt move on. But if you did put the trauma behind you, you willingly gave up your claim to the person you were before it happened.”
“I can explain myself: If you want to be safe, walk in the middle of the street. Im not joking. Youve been told to look both ways before crossing the street, and the sidewalk is your friend, right? ...”
“Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What ...”
“[Referring to rape] It already is bigger than everything else. It lives in front of me, behind me, next to me, inside me every single day. My schedule is dictated by it, my habits by it, my music b...”
“Shes fifteen, above the age of consent, and hes seventeen, but hes still the boy in every conversation. Shes the young woman.Words are not small things.”
“She is told all the things she shouldnt have done: She shouldnt have waited so long before going to the police. She shouldnt have gotten rid of the clothes she was wearing. Shouldnt have showered. ...”
“The terror takes you. The cage is locked and the curtain drawn. Fingers dance along as blades, carving memories into your flesh that will leave scars long past being healed.”
“Seventeen times against the wall or in the barn: You move or scream or say anything I will kill them all. In front of you. First I will torture them and then I will kill them. Her eyes as dead as s...”
“If you think I'm going to apologize for being drugged and raped, you have another thing coming.”
“She told me that my rape was not my fault, that I should feel no shame, that simple as it may sound I hadnt caused it. No one causes rape but rapists. No one causes rape but rapists. No one cause...”
“For the perpetrator, rape lasts just a matter of minutes. For the victim, it never stops.”
“There was, she suddenly saw, many ways to be raped.”
“Somewhere in the sun-washed space between Southern Californias hills of sand and the present desolate volcanic sprawl I was crossing, my legs had strengthened, but invisibly so had my will. The w...”
