Nicole

“Unmoored and in flight, the refugee is vulnerable to every kind of harm—from homelessness to fraud—but sexual violence is the most intimate and most public act of brutalization, and it erupts wherever laws and social norms are unraveled.”
― Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

“My compassion for victims of sexual violence is something that I cannot control. It spills out of me like an instinct rather than a choice.”
― Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

“When you grow older, you’ll tell her, you will not get over what happened, but you will reach the other side of it.”
― Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

“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