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“The moment where you consider giving in, or do give in, that's the moment you torture yourself about for the rest of your life. That's the moment where you think it happened to you because you are a bad and weak person, who wanted it really. When in fact, it's about survival. And whichever choice you make, it wasn't really a choice at all.”
― Don't You Forget About Me
― Don't You Forget About Me
“Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do.”
― Debbie.
― Debbie.
“It was less the fact of Yoshiko's defilement than the defilement of her trust in people which became so persistent a source of grief as almost to render my life insupportable. [...] Yoshiko's immaculate trustfulness seemed clean an pure, like a waterfall among green leaves. One night sufficed to turn the waters of this pure cascade yellow and muddy. Yoshiko began from that night to fret over my every smile or frown.”
― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human
“If you think I'm going to apologize for being drugged and raped, you have another thing coming.”
― Exit, Pursued by a Bear
― Exit, Pursued by a Bear
“Because I questioned myself and my sanity and what I was doing wrong in this situation. Because of course I feared that I might be overreacting, overemotional, oversensitive, weak, playing victim, crying wolf, blowing things out of proportion, making things up. Because generations of women have heard that they're irrational, melodramatic, neurotic, hysterical, hormonal, psycho, fragile, and bossy. Because girls are coached out of he womb to be non-confrontational, agreeable, solicitous, deferential, demure, nurturing, to be tuned in to others, and to shrink and shut up.”
― Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
― Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
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