Quote by Epictetus

“I had never imagined I would be having a conversation with a stranger about consents regarding my body, someone who was just trying to…

— Ndeupewa

“I did not know if I would ever find my way past that shame and toward a place where I could face my body,…

— Roxane Gay

“I want to learn how to trust a man. I wanted to know what true, physical pleasure felt like. I wanted to find the…

— Nina Lane

“Maybe it’s our bodies’ way of telling us we were meant to be. Or maybe I, like, cuddle raped him or something.”

— Lauren Barnholdt

“With small nose, gross thighs, and those back-bent smoke-dyed fingers, he obliged me with this explanation, and he thought to have more effect on…

— Saul Bellow

“Nobody taught me to be like this. I was born this way. Since I opened my eyes to the world, I have never slept…

— Chavela Vargas

“This explained to me--and I suppose, forgave me--my inability to see the face of this man, because whoever must deceive us in order to…

— Michael Ennis

“If I had taken time to think, it would have gotten away again, but conscious thinking had been canceled by pain, surprise, and the…

— Stephen King

“I am not, as you will have observed, a man greatly enamored of his fellow human beings. I do not enter lightly into the…

— Patrick McGrath

“They are my men and this ship my responsibility. I vowed no woman would ever alter my path. Yet I kept them from ending…

— Saskia Walker

“I just don't trust people who have bodies that change with their moods. Well then you'll never trust the opposite sex again.”

— Melina Marchetta

“I jump over dead bodies, and in my mind flashes a thought: how quickly men become accustomed to things which, at one time, they…

— Mansur Abdulin