Michelle Mock

“I do not write to trigger victims. I write to comfort them, and I’ve found that victims identify more with pain than platitudes.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name: A Memoir

“What they were really saying is, victims can’t write. Victims aren’t smart, capable, or independent. They need external help to articulate their thoughts, needs, and demands. They are too emotional to compose anything coherent. It cannot be the same drunk girl who was found unconscious, the one who the media said uncontrollably sobbed throughout testimony. On a deep level, they wanted to take away my writing, which I would not give up so easily.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name: A Memoir

“When society questions a victim's reluctance to report, I will be here to remind you that you ask us to sacrifice our sanity to fight outdated structures that were designed to keep us down...The real question we need to be asking is not, Why didn't she report, the question is, Why would you?”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name

“Awful feelings may remain the same, but my capacity to handle them has grown.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name: A Memoir