“A 5-year old girls also gets raped. A woman covered in a burkha too. A 70-year old woman gets raped. This is not about sexuality or nudity. This is about control and power. I think men are insecure, afraid of being rejected. They can’t control a woman’s sexuality and that scares them. From an early…”— Ritabhari Chakraborty and Arindam Sil, youtube.com
“Self control is not enforced enough. All the pressure is placed on women to prevent assault.”— Asia Cheyanne, twitter.com
“I met a beautiful girl the other day at the park. Amazed by such beauty, I went up to her. Sparks flew and she fell at my feet, we ended up having sex right there and then. I fucking love my new Taser”— Perry4761, reddit.com
“I wish women didn’t have to rip our pasts open and show you everything and let you ogle our pain for you to believe us.”— Lindy West, latimes.com
“The only thing that shocked most people in the film industry about the Harvey Weinstein story was that suddenly, for some reason, people seemed to care.”— Sarah Polley, nytimes.com
“Me and a gun, and a man on my back. But I haven't seen Barbados, so I must get out of this.”— Tori Amos, open.spotify.com
“What you need to know is that my life is split in two, cleaved not so neatly. There is the before and the after. Before I gained weight. After I gained weight. Before I was raped. After I was raped.”— Roxane Gay, amazon.com
“When you have OCD, the trigger is not reasonable, it is not something along the lines of ‘they messed it up, I have to fix it or it will annoy me’, it is more a long the lines of ‘if I don’t make sure my collection of vintage potato chips is in chronological order, someone will date-rape my future d…”— Hayden Carroll, thoughtcatalog.com
“And do not approach unlawful sexual intercourse. Indeed, it is ever an immorality and is evil as a way.”— 17:32 (Surah al-Isra), amazon.com
“I played a couple years with a guy who later turned out to be a serial rapist. Even he never talked like that.”— Chris Kluwe, vox.com
“The rape joke is that you were crazy for the next five years, and had to move cities, and had to move states, and whole days went down into the sinkhole of thinking about why it happened. Like you went to look at your backyard and suddenly it wasn’t there, and you were looking down into the center o…”— Patricia Lockwood, theawl.com
“What I felt is not uncommon among victims of rape or abuse. Rape is such a violation; the feeling of worthlessness is almost universal. It wasn’t my fault. But I was broken. No one would want me anymore.”— Elizabeth A. Smart, amazon.com
“I didn’t feel like a whole person anymore. I felt like I was … like not even half, like I was just a portion of a human being. I just felt filthy and disgusting. I felt like, Who could ever want me back? Who could ever want to talk to me? Who would ever be my friend? I don’t know what the exact defi…”— Elizabeth A. Smart, amazon.com
“After I had been raped and brutalized, there was something new inside my soul. There was a burning now inside me, a fierce determination that no matter what I had to do, I was going to live!”— Elizabeth A. Smart, Chris Stewart, amazon.com
“Isn’t it sad that when a girl says she was sexually assaulted, our first instinct is to think she’s probably lying? Statistics and facts tell us the exact opposite. We demand ‘perfect victims’ who better not have been drinking or hanging out at a party in a short skirt or revealing dress or have eve…”— Amy Schumer, amazon.com
“You brought me to the bar and ordered my drink for me. This wouldn’t be the first time you decided something for me.”— Amanda Conder, thoughtcatalog.com
“People fail to understand that tragedy and silence have the exact same address.”— Salmah Hamid, thoughtcatalog.com
“Consensual sex’ is just sex. To say that implies that there is such a thing as ‘non consensual sex’, which there isn’t. That’s rape. That is what it needs to be called. There is only sex or rape. Do not teach people that rape is just another type of sex. They are two very separate events. You wouldn…”— Anonymous, facebook.com