Books Quote by Michelle Alexander

“(From the Q&A with the author at the end of the book.) Have any readers ever asked questions that shocked you? I have gotten…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“Book: [to Mal] If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they…

— Josh Whedon

“Build a bridge over shame by teaching kids about sexual abuse. Give them a chance to run to us should they encounter it. Be…

— Carolyn Byers Ruch

“Sexual revelation in literature, must be tactful and must serve plot”

— Gore Vidal

“What still frightens me is that society is fickle. There was a time when nobody believed in the reality of abuse, and now it…

— Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

“Adults need to teach the children they love about sexual abuse so they know what to do if they encounter it. We need to…

— Carolyn Byers Ruch

[Sexual abuse] is such a sharp, potent topic that we really should have discussions about more openly and more often.

— Rachael Taylor

The book Love and Trouble is asserting that sexuality lives inside us, and in the culture, and in the people who do things to…

— Claire Dederer

For every woman and girl violently attacked, we reduce our humanity. For every woman forced into unprotected sex because men demand this, we destroy…

— Nelson Mandela

“I believe that the rape-is-not-about-sex doctrine will go down in history as an example of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds. It…

— Steven Pinker

“When we stay silent about female-perpetrated abuse, we don’t just fail the victims — we fail the culture. - When the Predator Doesn’t Fit…

— Carlos Wallace

“When a girl is sexually abused, layers of secrecy and shame are added to her self-blame. The incestuous aggressor always projects the guilt for…

— Susan Forward