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“Any model of consent can prove itself worthless if a man is not open to his sexual partner's no, or her changing desires, and if he responds to either of these with a rage borne of humiliation.”
― Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

“There is nothing loving or caring about a close parent-child relationship when it services the needs and feelings of the parent rather than the child.”
― Kenneth M. Adams, Silently Seduced: When Parents Make Their Children Partners

“And so now, I say: Sometimes the monster is the one who saves us. It takes a monster to face down the dark.”
― Riva Lehrer, Golem Girl: A Memoir

“But speech and truth-telling are not inherently emancipatory, and neither speech nor silence is inherently liberating or oppressive...Consent, and its conceit of absolute clarity, places the burden of good sexual interaction on women's behavoir – Woe betide she who does not know herself and speak that knowledge.”
― Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent