Carly Tinkler

“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

“For those who are the most directly victimized, the complicity and silence of bystanders—friends, relatives, and neighbors, not to mention officials of the law—feel like a profound betrayal, for this is what isolates them and abandons them to their fates.”
― Judith Lewis Herman, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

“Rape could be considered the signal crime of male supremacy, a pure enactment of power for its own sake.”
― Judith Lewis Herman, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

“Discussions about rape are so often irrational, and sometimes outright bizarre. It's the only crime to which people respond by wanting to lock up the victims. It's the only crime that is so bad that victims are supposed to be destroyed beyond repair by it, but simultaneously not so bad that the men who do it should be treated like criminals.”
― Sohaila Abdulali, What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape