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“sex takes the consent of twoif one person is lying there not doing anythingcause they are not readyor not in the moodor simply don't want toyet the other is having sexwith their body it's not lovei...”
“Why me, then? I ask. Why not Branley? Shes way hotter and was just as drunk as I was.Alex shakes her head as she sits back down. Physical attractiveness has nothing to do with it. You were alone, i...”
“That would be the most surprising lesson I'd learn... You only scream when you're finally safe.”
“He was planning to rape me -""Why would he ever -""Because he knew he'd get away with it.”
“They were so thrilled when I said Im a virgin, I blurt out. Im so fucking stupid.I start crying again, and Alex hands me a napkin. Youre not stupid, she says. You simply dont assume people mean you...”
“Rape and war, she explained are among the most common causes of post-traumatic stress disorder, and survivors of sexual assault frequently exhibit many of the same symptoms and behaviors as survivo...”
“I love Sara, but something was taken from me at the church, something that she cant relate to. Every time I walk outside I think maybe someone is going to grab me. I take a sip of a glass of water ...”
“When an individual is raped in this country, more than 90 percent of the time the rapist gets away with the crime.”
“Baby, youre not the one whos broken. The assholes who mistreated you, theyre the broken ones. You did what you had to do to survive them.”
“There is a cop who is both prowler and father:he comes from your block, grew up with your brothers,had certain ideals.You hardly know him in his boots and silver badge,on horseback, one hand touchi...”
“I think that a kind of guilt works at a subconscious level in the minds of the Bengalis regarding the women tortured during the Liberation War. The War went on only for nine months, it was the resp...”
“Ad they entered Berlin, while still killing off the last of its German defenders, The Russians indulged in an orgy of rape and rage beyond the bounds of human Imagination. Over the course of ten da...”
“Do you really think that laws made by men and a justice system maintained by men will ever be fair in cases of rape? Nora Hawks from One Bullet Beyond Justice”
“I dont care that it has been going on since the Old Testament. Rape is wrong and I will keep fighting violent men. Everything starts with one person and the determination to see it through. Nora Ha...”
“I had spent so much time secretly scared of rape that in that moment I was hardly even afraid anymore. Or rather I had moved on to my next fearwhat happens when its over? Would I be left there, alo...”
“Laws must be efficaciously deterrent in nature, and in grave offences where offenders trespass the precincts of being a human, and commit crimes against even babies/infants/children; solely for bea...”
“For every survivor there is also a rapist.”
“I found I could not not let the words flow.”
“I want to empasize that rape is about human beings, not statistics.”
“Emily supposed the modern world was fortunate in the progress of science. But she could not help but feel at this moment the impropriety of male invasiveness. She knew he was working to save this p...”
