Madel

“The Life Ruiner alone didn't ruin me. The world that made him did—the place that continues to manufacture replicas of him and continues to create the circumstances in which he and his replicas thrive.
What is there to do about that?”
― Nora Salem, 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

“Sometimes people tell me that something bad happened to me, but I am brave and strong. I don’t want to be told that I am brave or strong. I am not right just because he was wrong. I don’t want to be made noble. I want someone willing to watch me thrash and crumple because that, too, is the truth, and it needs a witness. “He broke me,” I say to a friend. “You’re not broken,” she whispers back. I turn my palms up, wishing I could show her the pieces.”
― Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

“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