Natalie
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“My DA would later tell me women aren’t preferred on juries of rape cases because they’re likely to resist empathizing with the victim, insisting there must be something wrong with her because that would never happen to me. I thought of mothers who had commented, My daughters would never . . . which made me sad because comments like that did not make her daughter any safer, just ensured that if the daughter was raped, she’d likely have one less person to go to.”
― Know My Name
― Know My Name
“When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.”
― Bad Feminist: Essays
― Bad Feminist: Essays
“When feminism falls short of our expectations, we decide the problem is with feminism rather than with the flawed people who act in the name of the movement.”
― Bad Feminist: Essays
― Bad Feminist: Essays
“They seemed angry that I’d made myself vulnerable, more than the fact that he’d acted on my vulnerability.”
― Know My Name
― Know My Name
“I didn’t know that money could make the cell doors swing open. I didn’t know that if a woman was drunk when the violence occurred, she wouldn’t be taken seriously. I didn’t know that if he was drunk when the violence occurred, people would offer him sympathy. I didn’t know that my loss of memory would become his opportunity. I didn’t know that being a victim was synonymous with not being believed.”
― Know My Name
― Know My Name
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