“'After' is what happens when you deprive a generation of kids of Judy Blume-worthy sex.”— Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com
“R. Kelly was freed from Cook County Jail in Chicago on Saturday, where he'd been sent Wednesday after failing to pay $161,663 in child support to his ex-wife.”— Julia Reinstein, buzzfeednews.com
“They clearly wish these things hadn’t happened to them. But if they must be here, recounting private traumas for an often critical public, they want you to know it could just have easily been you.”— Katie Heaney, thecut.com
“'Lorena' restores Lorena’s dignity, not only aligning her ordeal with the modern-day #MeToo movement, but perhaps more crucially, eviscerating the smug, lazy, sensation-driven treatment she received at the time.”— Tim Grierson, melmagazine.com
“These disturbing allegations only serve to highlight a startling lack of oversight on the part of YouTube, and they're a wake-up call to any parents who think they can trust the streaming network to provide safe entertainment for kids.”— Ashley Austrew, thestir.cafemom.com
“We can never tell anyone what we are doing. People are ignorant and would never understand that we love each other and this is how we show it.”— Michael Jackson, thesun.co.uk
“At times Joe and Beck seem cute together (isn't it great how we've been conditioned to believe stalking can be flattering?) — until you remember Joe is actually a violent, obsessive dude who entraps women under the guise of being a woke, sensitive, literary-minded boyfriend.”— Claire Dodson, teenvogue.com
“To hold the truth within me that some things are so sad and wrong and unanswerable that the question must simply stand alone like a spear in the mud.”— Cheryl Strayed, therumpus.net
“There is a path forward, past denial and scandal and shame. There is a path to genuinely being the better person that you want to be.”— Ijeoma Oluo, theestablishment.co
“Abusers also deploy tactics like being emotionally withholding and hot-and-cold with affection to manipulate their victims into doing as they say. And while this isn’t what most people mean when they talk about ghosting, it’s harmful behavior that’s rightly classified as abusive.”— Madeleine Holden, melmagazine.com
“It's unclear how closely Steve Stanich's personal and professional problems overlap. But by the time of the restaurant's increased exposure, Stanich was struggling.”— Matthew Singer, wweek.com
“Attention, single people! If your date or partner treats everything that happens as YOUR FAULT ALONE, run the other way.”— Heather Havrilesky, thecut.com
“He looked at a normative, everyday confict, and responded with extreme cruelty. He looked at the regular, even banal, expression of difference and saw a threat.”— Sarah Schulman, amazon.com
“River View argues it's doing just fine — great, in fact — even though it has no licensed teachers, no nurses, and no licensed psychiatrists or therapists on staff.”— Tyler Kingkade, buzzfeednews.com
“Issa: Some other day, some shit went down — Kelli: Girl, did he hit you? Issa: What? No. Kelli: Okay, I like Lawrence, but I will go ape on that nigga, okay? Does he have a car? Issa: Kelli. Kelli: I'm gonna fuck that up first. Issa: He did not hit me. Okay? We're — we're just going through this, li…”— Issa Dee, Issa Rae, imdb.com
“You know, your father sounds a lot like mine. Could never really say 'I love you' except with his fists.”— Sarah Nicole Jones, Ray Utarnachitt, Leonard Snart / Captain Cold, Wentworth Miller, imdb.com
“Claire: Listen to me. If you ever raise a hand to me again, James Fraser, I will cut out your heart and eat it for breakfast, do you understand me? Jamie: Aye, you have my word.”— Matthew B. Roberts, Claire Randall, Caitriona Balfe, imdb.com
“Daya Diaz: What's the matter, you don't wanna hit me again? Aleida Diaz: From here on out, this place will hit you for me.”— Jenji Kohan, Dayanara 'Daya' Diaz, Dascha Polanco, imdb.com