Bed Quote by Emma Sulkowicz

When I was raped I lost my virginity and almost lost my life. I also discarded certain assumptions I had held about how the…

— Alice Sebold

But over 20 years ago I was a victim of rape. And thank god it didn't result in a pregnancy. Because I can't imagine…

— Gretchen Whitmer

My dad abandoned me when I was about two years old. So, he wasn't around to protect me the way I needed to be…

— Pattie Mallette

I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few…

— Maya Angelou

When I was five years old I was molested and just, you know. I remember feeling, literally right before it happened, I just could…

— Mary J. Blige

When I was around 18, I got kicked out of my parents' house, and I wasn't allowed to take anything with me. I slept…

— Antoni Porowski

My cellmate's raped on the norm, and passed around the dorm, you can hear his asshole getting torn.

— Tupac Shakur

I had grown up at a time when people were being lynched, being attacked with water hoses. Becoming active and learning a different way…

— Assata Shakur

I was traumatized by a lot of childhood stuff. I felt that I was bad somewhere, starting with my birth.

— Joel Grey

I think that definitely any trauma - whether it's childhood or later in life - affects you negatively, especially when it's suppressed, but there's…

— Roland Orzabal

I survived this torture which left me paralyzed for years. That's what that night was all about, mutilation, more than violence through sex. I…

— Tori Amos

Well to me growing, up I've had my own psychological war with my parents dying at such a young age. My mother was killed…

— Adam Beach