“No, what disgusted them was that they had no power over me. I no longer fit their ideal of a virgin waiting for them to claim me. That was what repulsed them. That was what they found monstrous. I wasn’t theirs anymore, and I never could be again. Naturally, violence came next.”
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“You wonder what it's like to be a man, to be so confident that the final say is yours.”
“But this is not a ‘women’s issue’ and it is not for women to solve.”
“None of us are equal until all of us are.”
“Anger can be destructive, but it can also be transformative.”
“Our history is stained with injustices and rage that took too long to be acknowledged.”