Louise

“quote by feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi in bright red. “I speak the truth and the truth is savage and dangerous,”
― Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

“When your truth is so inherently questioned, it is easier to say nothing than anything at all.”
― Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

“Perhaps the most horrifying thing about nonconsensual sex is that, in an instant, it erases you. Your own desires, your safety and well-being, your ownership of the body that may very well have been the only thing you ever felt sure you owned—all of it becomes irrelevant, even nonexistent. You don’t need to be a helpless, innocent child to be changed by that.”
― Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

“This is rape's legacy, the countless deaths women die just trying to keep existing in the world as it is.”
― Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture