Quotes About Being Sexually Assaulted

#1. The price of a college education should never include a 1 in 5 chance of being sexually assaulted.

Claire McCaskill

#2. Luckily, I discovered ice skating when I was eight and a half years old. There were two wonderful ponds within walking distance of my house. After all the physical activity the summer provided, I craved movement in the cold of winter. I had no skates, so Mom stuffed socks into my brother's old ones.

Dorothy Hamill

#3. Our house was always filled with dogs ... They helped make our house a kennel, it is true, but the constant patter of their filthy paws and the dreadful results of their brainless activities have warmed me throughout the years.

Helen Hayes

#4. I was trying to drown my sorrows," I explained, looking down into the bottom of my glass, "but my sorrows learned to swim.

Eliza Lentzski

#5. People will look at the world without seeing anything beyond their unconscious expectation.

Chuck Klosterman

#6. For what was living with a man if it wasn't living inside his insanity?

Alice Munro

#7. It's only a scratch, don't cut my arm off!

Carrie Vaughn

#8. Women who are harassed, at work, on the street, or even online, are subject to the same rigid purity standards as women who are sexually assaulted, Just by virtue of being out in public, we're overstepping certain boundaries.

Jessica Valenti

#9. When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.

Taylor Swift

#10. The forges of friendship, thought Angus, may be busy ones, but their dorrs are always open.

Alexander McCall Smith

#11. For me, it's more about being there, bearing witness to history, bearing witness to what's happening, what our country, the position our country is taking overseas. I want policy-makers to see the fruits of their decisions, basically, and to try and influence foreign policy.

Lynsey Addario

#12. I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity. What kind of life permits a person the right to become his own subject?

Yiyun Li

#13. To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.

Georges Canguilhem