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“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
“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
“The child gives, because the body can, and the mind of the violator cannot.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“The shame should have been all his but I chose to carry it around this whole time.”
― Saints and Misfits
― Saints and Misfits
“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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