“I just meant this stuff with me is different. And I definitely wouldn't call it regular bullying."
"So what would you call it, then?"
I opened my mouth to answer.
But I didn't have any words.
Because all the words I could think of—bullying, teasing, flirting—seemed too simple, too small, to hold all the hurt I was feeling.”
Source: Maybe He Just Likes You
“The state is controlling my destiny and my penis.”
Source: Why I'm Making It Legal for Your 18 Year Old Daughter to Get In Bed with a Complete Stranger for Only 500 Bucks: A Short Essay from a Pro Se Litigant who is Challenging the Utah Brothel Bans
“How confused they were when they saw how much I’d grown. Like, ‘Should we scorn her because she’s a kid? Or should we objectify her because she’s a woman? What kind of shit should we make her feel like?’”
Source: This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us
“In all societies, both women and men are powerfully conditioned to repress the daily realities of (sexual harassment and workplace glass ceilings) and to collude with the rest of society in keeping these dimensions of shared experiences hidden.”
Source: Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation Between Women and Men
“You don't owe me your love. You didn't owe me a polite yes. It was not on you to let me down gently and somehow ward off punishment I was fucking stupid enough to think you deserved.”
Source: Never Sweeter
“Religious sexual harassment and abuse has become an epidemic. Sadly, it's not something new. It's existed since the fall of Adam and Eve. Religion is not exempt. A sacred place meant to be safe and holy has become the breeding ground for violence and evil.”
Source: Sacred Wandering: Growing Your Faith In The Dark
“A complete history of sexual scandal in Washington will probably never be written, because the public does not want to read a 20,000 page book that needs to be updated weekly (note to self: maybe they DO -- idea for next book). From the earliest days of the Republic, when our first Ambassador, Benjamin Franklin, fondled and groped the awestruck wives of his French hosts while on mission to Paris, shortly to be succeeded by the even-more-amorous Thomas Jefferson, who broke an ankle in the Louvre while leaping to an assignation with yet another married Frenchwoman, all the way down to our contemporary satyrs, the priapic Kennedys, Wilbur "Fanne Fox" Mills, "Slobbering Bob" Packwood, Bill "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" Clinton, etc., our political leaders have repeatedly proven to be incredibly horny old goats.”
Source: Red Genes, Blue Genes: Exposing Political Irrationality
“Sakyamuni Buddha spoke four lines of verse which those who study the Vajra Sutra should regularly recite:
All Condition Dharmas
Are Like Dreams, Illusions, Bubbles, Shadows,
Like Dew Drops And A Lightning Flash:
Contemplate Them Thus.”
Source: A General Explanation of the Vajra Prajna Paramita (Diamond) Sutra
“Always, in all ways, invest in Bloom”
Source: Getting Ready: Your Journal to Help You Deal with and Heal from Sexual Harassment
“But behind it all, we can't truly know which men are harmless. And the cost of being wrong is high.”
Source: Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger