“Mom asked me if I was okay. I shrugged and nodded. “Well, there you go”, she said. She said that sexual assault was a crime of perception. “If you don’t think you’re hurt, then you aren’t”, she said. “So many women make such a big deal out of these things. But you’re stronger then that”, she went back to her crossword puzzle.”
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“When African slave Phillis Wheatley wrote poetry, 18 men came to assess whether that was possible.”
“La femme mariée est une esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un trône.”
“As a woman still, without the right kind of mouth, my tongue’s of no use.”