Nocturn

“Every accommodation that women make to
this domination, however apparently stupid, self-defeating, or dangerous, is rooted in the urgent need to survive somehow on male
terms. Inevitably this causes women to take the rage and contempt
they feel for the men who actually abuse them, those close to
them, and project it onto others, those far away, foreign, or different.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Right-Wing Women

“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

“Women are consistently and systematically denied the respect creative intelligence requires to be sustained: painfully denied it, cruelly denied it, sadistically denied it.
Women are not supposed to have creative intelligence, but when
they do they are supposed to renounce it. If they want the love of
men, without which they are not really women, they had better
not hold on to an intelligence that searches and that is action in the
world; thought that has consequences is inimical to fettered femininity.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Right-Wing Women

“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