Nocturn

“If she wants him sexually he names her slut; if she does not want him he rapes her and says she does; if she would rather study or paint he names her repressed and brags he can cure her pathological interests with the apocryphal “good fuck.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Pornography: Men Possessing Women

“My brother once called me a hard person. I think he meant that I am a person who does not forgive. This is true. I find it difficult to forgive people who have done harm to me. I am this way out of necessity, because if I do not remember the harm done to me, then no one will, and the boy that I was will have no one to look out for him.”
― Brandon Taylor, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

“The survivor who was raped at knifepoint feels guilty she has taken up the space of a survivor who was raped at gunpoint.”
― Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

“Tony told the psychiatrists /he/ liked to crash cars into walls for sexual pleasure and also that he wanted to kill women because he thought looking into their eyes as they died would make him feel normal.
"Where did you get that one from?" I asked Tony.
"A biography of Ted Bundy," Tony replied. "I found it in the prison library."
I nodded and thought it probably wasn't a great idea for prison libraries to stock books about Ted Bundy.”
― Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry