Nicole

“I have spent years in therapy, decades in yoga, and months in meditation to grow and heal and understand and yet, despite everything, when I write about that night I still worry if my story is believable.”
― Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

“Because I can’t understand a sexual identity that doesn’t involve rage or terror or power.”
― Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

“Imagine the places you grew up, the places you studied, places that belonged to your people, burned. But I should stop pretending that I know you. Perhaps you do not have to imagine. Perhaps your library, too, went up in smoke.”
― V.V. Ganeshananthan, Brotherless Night

“understand why you kept your secret for so long. You start to understand why it isn’t safe for some women and men to ever share their secrets: Their families will implode, their livelihoods are at stake, their marriages may end. This you know: The truth may set you free, but the truth will also cost you.”
― Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture