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  • #1
    Jessica Valenti
    “Now, should we treat women as independent agents, responsible for themselves? Of course. But being responsible has nothing to do with being raped. Women don’t get raped because they were drinking or took drugs. Women do not get raped because they weren’t careful enough. Women get raped because someone raped them.
    Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women

  • #2
    Kurt Cobain
    “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 really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there.”
    Kurt Cobain
    tags: rape

  • #3
    Gavin de Becker
    “Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death.”
    Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

  • #4
    Khaled Hosseini
    “I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

  • #5
    Louise O'Neill
    “They are all innocent until proven guilty. But not me. I am a liar until I am proven honest.”
    Louise O'Neill, Asking For It

  • #6
    “Violators cannot live with the truth: survivors cannot live without it. There are those who still, once again, are poised to invalidate and deny us. If we don't assert our truth, it may again be relegated to fantasy. But the truth won't go away. It will keep surfacing until it is recognized. Truth will outlast any campaigns mounted against it, no matter how mighty, clever, or long. It is invincible. It's only a matter of which generation is willing to face it and, in so doing, protect future generations from ritual abuse.”
    Chrystine Oksana, Safe Passage to Healing: A Guide for Survivors of Ritual Abuse

  • #7
    Leonard Sweet
    “What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that does not change. Change is life. Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.”
    Leonard Sweet

  • #8
    Louis-Ferdinand Céline
    “When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit.”
    Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Journey to the End of the Night

  • #9
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

  • #10
    “Stagnation is self-abdication.”
    Ryan Talbot

  • #11
    Atticus  .
    “She was powerful
    not because she wasn’t scared
    but because
    she went on so strongly
    despite the fear.”
    Atticus Poetry, The Dark Between Stars

  • #12
    John B. Watson
    “Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I’ll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select—doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors. (1930)”
    John Broadus Watson, Behaviorism

  • #13
    Anne Frank
    “Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
    Anne Frank

  • #14
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

  • #15
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #16
    William Peter Blatty
    “In our sleep, pain, which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom”
    William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

  • #17
    “The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.”
    Alfred Brendel

  • #18
    “Don't trust people who tell you other people's secrets.”
    Dan Howell

  • #19
    Criss Jami
    “Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.”
    Criss Jami, Healology



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