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

“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

“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