Lisa O

“If you think I'm going to apologize for being drugged and raped, you have another thing coming.”
― E.K. Johnston, 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.”
― Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

“The shame should have been all his but I chose to carry it around this whole time.”
― S.K. Ali, Saints and Misfits

“We force her to think hard about what this will mean for his life, even though he never considered what his actions would do to her.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name