151 Quotes About Sexual-assault

[Referring to rape] It already is bigger than everything else. It lives in front of me, behind me, next to me, inside me every single day. My schedule is dictated by it, my habits by it, my music by it.

The silence was killing me.And that's all there ever was. Silence. It was all I knew. Keep quiet. Pretend nothing had happened, that nothing was wrong. And look how well that was turning out.

I am a victim, I have no qualms with this word, only with the idea that it is all that I am.

The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive.

Standing behind predators makes prey of us all.

Why didn't I report it? Because when you are sexually assaulted by a relative, it's terribly complicated. Initially, I felt shock, numb, and powerless. Keep in mind, sexual assault is an act of violence; not sex. In addition, sexual assault is about power. It's common for victims to feel helpless.

I used writing to take language where women’s pain was--and women’s fear--and I kept excavating for the words that could bear the burden of speaking the unspeakable...

#IHaveTheRightTo

This book does not have a happy ending. The happy part is there is no ending, because I’ll always find a way to keep going.