“Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do.” — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
“This book is dedicated to all who have been affected by sexual violence.” — Robert Uttaro Copy Share Image
“Just one person. It really honestly just takes one positive person. One positive person can help you. And that can go a… — Robert Uttaro Copy Share Image
“An engaging examination of a painful subject, with a focus on healing and forgiveness. - Kirkus Review” — Robert Uttaro Copy Share Image
“It's easy not to abuse your power when you don't actually have any power.” — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“Everyone heals in their own time and in their own way. The path isn't always a straight line, and you don't need… — Zeke Thomas Copy Share Image
“But no matter how much evil I see, I think it’s important for everyone to understand that there is much more light… — Robert Uttaro Copy Share Image
“John was still making comments regarding violent things that he shouldn't, but I hoped he was just being a big mouth. Nobody… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
“If you have been raped or sexually assaulted and you have been blamed, or fear that you may be blamed, I just… — Robert Uttaro Copy Share Image
“According to FBI statistics, false accusations of rape are no more common than for other crimes. Different Crimes, Different Criminals: Understanding, Treating… — Doris Layton MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“Always know there are friends somewhere rooting for you. There are people you don’t know, always praying for you and lifting you… — Robert Uttaro Copy Share Image
“If we truly believe in equity, in justice, in accountability — then gender can’t be a shield. A predator is a predator,… — Carlos Wallace Copy Share Image
“We mute the realization of malevolence- which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into victims themselves and by describing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
“Rape is so particularly traumatic and so meaningful in so many ways, that there’s something about using the word in other contexts… — Sandra Brindley Copy Share Image
Over and over victims are blamed for their assaults. And when we imply that victims bring on their own fates - whether… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Oddly then, in our search for meaning, we often assign victims too much blame for their assaults, and offenders too little. Our… — Anna Salter Copy Share Image
“Beauty" and sexuality are both commonly misunderstood as some transcendent inevitable fact; falsely interlocking the two makes it seem doubly true that… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Jokes and media slurs about rape and its survivors not only desensitize the issue but also have an impact on rape conviction… — Alison Saunders head of the Crown Prosecution Service Copy Share Image
“We live in a world in which women are battered and are unable to flee from the men who beat them, although… — Natascha Kampusch Copy Share Image
“The story of my birth that my mother told me went like this: "When you were coming out I wasn't ready yet… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
“I think it is important to recognize one’s power, one’s capacities, and one’s dreams. We were actually talking about this in the… — Robert Uttaro Copy Share Image
“Melinda's trick is looking hard in the mirror, Absolving herself and cracking open doors to the next place. But the girl at… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Some writers have even argued that it may be possible to wean sex offenders away from their criminal activities through the use… — Richard Dunphy Copy Share Image
“In a sexual double standard as to who receives consumer protection, it seems that if what you do is done to women… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Where woman do not fit the Iron Maiden [societal expectations/assumptions about women's bodies], we are now being called monstrous, and the Iron… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Self-denial can lock women into a smug and critical condescension to other, less devout women. According to Appel, cult members develop..."an attitude… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“I think I just said it, but I think it’s worth repeating. They gave me hope that there is good in the… — Robert Uttaro Copy Share Image
“When a stranger on the street makes a sexual comment, he is making a private assessment of me public. And though I’ve… — Leora Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
“A consequence of female self-love is that the woman grows convinced of social worth. Her love for her body will be unqualified,… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Finally, another large-scale study [of false rape allegations] was conducted in Australia, with the 850 rapes reported to the Victoria police between… — David Lisak Copy Share Image
“The largest and most rigorous study that is currently available in this area is the third one commissioned by the British Home… — David Lisak Copy Share Image
“Summary There is a small group of cases, initially treated as rape where there is no evidence of an assault: primarily where… — Liz Kelly Copy Share Image
“This vacillation between assertion and denial in discussions about organised abuse can be understood as functional, in that it serves to contain… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“In 2011, actor Johnny Depp told the November issue of Vanity Fair that he felt participating in a photoshoot was akin to… — Emma Elsworth Copy Share Image
“How many rapes occurred inside the walls of the main camp of Ravensbrück is hard to put a figure to: so many… — Sarah Helm Copy Share Image
“Police recording of false allegations of rape: "The data on the pro formas limit the extent to which one can assess the… — Liz Kelly Copy Share Image
“Some readers may find it a curious or even unscientific endeavour to craft a criminological model of organised abuse based on the… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“Some of the most effective segments are interviews with various staff members, including Aila, who works for the center’s legal department. She… — Robert Uttaro Copy Share Image
“Writing from the perspective of women survivors of violence, Moore is at his most appealing; though his writing about sex and brutality… — Zoë Brigley (Thompson Copy Share Image
![“Where woman do not fit the Iron Maiden [societal expectations/assumptions about women's bodies], we are now being called monstrous, and the Iron Maiden is exactly that which no woman fits, or fits forever. A woman is being asked to feel like a monster now though she is whole and fully physically…” quote by Naomi Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bc2/naomi-wolf-1344_advertising_where-woman-do-not-fit-the-iron-maiden-s_891982.jpg)
![“Finally, another large-scale study [of false rape allegations] was conducted in Australia, with the 850 rapes reported to the Victoria police between 2000 and 2003 (Heenan & Murray, 2006). Using both quantitative and qualitative methods, the researchers examined 812 cases with sufficient…” quote by David Lisak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6ab/david-lisak-80297_education_finally-another-large-scale-study-of-fal_2975171.jpg)
