59 Quotes About Rape-survivor

It’s like I'm trapped in some kind of residual haunting." Rachel's eyes drifted back to the stain in the carpet. "Whenever I'm walking down a hallway, I swear, I hear steps behind me even though I know no one’s there. When I'm alone in my room, sometimes I feel like someone is standing right behind me.

You should have worn a baby pink t-shirt on which a child sucks his thumb. That would have given you the required juvenile look. ~ Subhangi Tyagi

I did not come into existence when he harmed me. 'She found her voice!' I had a voice, he stripped it, left me groping around blind for a bit, but I always had it. I just used it like I never had to use it before. I do not owe him my success, my becoming, he did not create me.

You are not the darkness you endured.You are the light that refused to surrender.

The shame should have been all his but I chose to carry it around this whole time.

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.

A LITTLE SONG AND A RECEIPT.Doe: a deer, a female deer—Often chased by sonneteers of old.Caught, and killed, and bathed in fear,turned to human blazons to be sold—Eyes—$twin models of the stars.Skin—$fine tissue wrought from gold.Lips—$your favorite kind of flower.Sex—$a secret still untold/ a Silk Road to unfold/ a thing for you to mold/ a source by you controlled.Total: $—————.—

I want people to know that I am a real person who exists in a real world. I am not a raped girl or victim. I had a life before that evening and I will continue to have a life. What happened with me that night will stay with me but if it has not killed me, it has made me stronger. ~ Subhangi Tyagi

Real life is nothing like television, there are no Special Victims Units like you see on TV protectively guiding women through the process. The police will act like just because they didn't kill you, they didn't somehow end your life.