“You are a fucking disgrace. You have RAPED someone you claim you love and now dare to be upset that she’s upset about it. Why are you all such dicks? What’s wrong with you? WHAT The ACTUAL FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU? …” p222
“This is how it feels when someone doesn’t stop, I say to him. You don’t like it, do you? You don’t like it at all, you pathetic piece of shit.” p246
“YES, I KNOW NOT ALL OF YOU DO IT, BUT ALL OF YOU CAN DO IT. THAT’S The POINT; THAT’S The FUCKING POINT.
The fear is always there. The threat is always there. Because, really, unless you are a fucking championship kick-boxer or something, if you are ever alone with a man, all he has to do is decide to do it and he’ll be able to. …
If only they could have a day of feeling as scared as we do. Please just let them have one day. Of not having the power, of us having it instead. …” p247
“I wasn’t crazy … You made me crazy.” p252
“You don’t see a problem with a man who probably hasn’t ever been violated getting to decide what counts as a violation? … ” p272
“It’s the violation that’s the violence, don’t you see? It’s knowing your boundaries mean bugger-all that’s the trauma—that anyone can touch you, that how you feel about it doesn’t count. That’s the trauma. That’s the violence. …” p272
