Survivors Of Sexual Assault Quotes

#1. Simply by recounting their stories and breaking that silence, survivors of sexual assault strike a powerful blow against their assailants.

Jon Krakauer

#2. If you want the beautiful moments to shine, you have to contrast that with dark and gruesome moments. That's the way life is.

Tony DiTerlizzi

#3. When you're doing superhero stunts, the objective is to look as cool as humanly possible.

J. August Richards

#4. Always know there are friends somewhere rooting for you. There are people you don't know, always praying for you and lifting you before God. - Jenee, from "To the Survivors".

Robert Uttaro

#5. Over half a million women are raped in this country every year, and only a fraction of them report it because they're too ashamed. It's a really screwed up world, but its not your fault, and what happened to you, it doesn't make you the monster.

Mariska Hargitay

#6. You're a kaleidoscope, you change every time I look away.

Rainbow Rowell

#7. Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour.

David Livingstone

#8. This is normal, to have pressure. It's how you respond. Take the pressure, use the pressure, have fun.

Chan Ho Park

#9. People may not realize the damage that they are doing by placing the blame on the victim ~ but that doesn't lessen the damage that they cause by doing it.

Darlene Ouimet

#10. My reaction to 'Sin City' is easily stated. I loved it. Or, to put it another way, I loved it, I loved it, I loved it. I loved every gorgeous sick disgusting ravishing overbaked blood-spurting artificial frame of it. A tad hypocritical? Yes. But sometimes you think, Well, I'll just go to hell.

David Edelstein

#11. During sexual abuse, children feel and incorporate the rage, pain, shame, and sense of perversion that the perpetrator is projecting. They take these feelings into the very core of themselves, and they are badly traumatized by the emotions surrounding the assault, as well as by the assault itself.

Renee Fredrickson