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“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“I think we have to start by humanizing rapists, not to downplay their actions but to face the fact that rapists are human. That makes the crime worse, not better. Humans have choices, and rape is a horrible one.”
― Sohaila Abdulali, What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape

“Telling doesn't always come with a reward: comfort, closure, justice. Sometimes, women tell but everyone acts as if they said nothing at all.”
― Sohaila Abdulali, What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape