{"quotes":[{"text":"The heavens raped from our misuse of love.","author":"A.P. Sweet","tags":["heavens","love","rape"],"id":1655,"author_id":"A.P.+Sweet"},{"text":"Zoe stopped one last time in front of the mirror, adjusting her new American dress. She didn’t see the dress, however. She saw what the big Russian did to her. She saw what al-Qaeda did to her. She saw a person shunned by her Persian village. She saw ugliness. Every time she looked in the mirror she saw deficiency.","author":"Michael Benzehabe","tags":["al-qaeda","american-fashion","benzehabe","deficiency","depression","immigrant","insecurity","iran","outsider","persian","rape","russia","shame","shunned","unassimilated","western-fashion"],"id":2793,"author_id":"Michael+Benzehabe"},{"text":"I WILL FOLLOW ANYONEAND THANK EVERYONEWHO TRIES TO MAKEA DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVESOF VULNERABLE CIVILIANS.","author":"Widad Akreyi","tags":["christians","civil-society","conflict","defend-international","human-rights","inspirational","kobane","kurds","peace","rape","slavery","violence-against-women","war","widad-akrawi","yazidis"],"id":4856,"author_id":"Widad+Akreyi"},{"text":"But no one ever said yes to make sex consensual. You took hints from body language, from the way two people came together. Why...Didn't a shake of the head or a hand pushing hard against a chest speak just as loudly? Why did you have to actually say the word no for it to be rape?","author":"Jodi Picoult","tags":["no","rape","the-tenth-circle"],"id":8670,"author_id":"Jodi+Picoult"},{"text":"Rape and war, she explained are among the most common causes of post-traumatic stress disorder, and survivors of sexual assault frequently exhibit many of the same symptoms and behaviors as survivors of combat: flashbacks, insomnia, nightmares, hypervigilance, depression, isolation, suicidal thoughts, outbursts of anger, unrelenting anxiety, and an inability to shake the feeling that the world is spinning out of control.","author":"Jon Krakauer","tags":["rape","rape-culture"],"id":11236,"author_id":"Jon+Krakauer"},{"text":"My vagina was green water, soft pink fields, cow mooing sun resting sweet boyfriend touching lightly with soft piece of blond straw.There is something between my legs. I do not know what it is. I do not know where it is. I do not touch. Not now. Not anymore. Not since.My vagina was chatty, can't wait, so much, so much saying, words talking, can't quit trying, can't quit saying, oh yes, oh yes.Not since I dream there's a dead animal sewn in down there with thick black fishing line. And the bad dead animal smell cannot be removed. And its throat is slit and it bleeds through all my summer dresses.My vagina singing all girl songs, all goat bells ringing songs, all wild autumn field songs, vagina songs, vagina home songs.Not since the soldiers put a long thick rifle inside me. So cold, the steel rod canceling my heart. Don't know whether they're going to fire it or shove it through my spinning brain. Six of them, monstrous doctors with black masks shoving bottles up me too. There were sticks, and the end of a broom.My vagina swimming river water, clean spilling water over sun-baked stones over stone clit, clit stones over and over.Not since I heard the skin tear and made lemon screeching sounds, not since a piece of my vagina came off in my hand, a part of the lip, now one side of the lip is completely gone.My vagina. A live wet water village. My vagina my hometown.Not since they took turns for seven days smelling like feces and smoked meat, they left their dirty sperm inside me. I became a river of poison and pus and all the crops died, and the fish.My vagina a live wet water village.They invaded it. Butchered it and burned itdown.I do not touch now.Do not visit.I live someplace else now.I don't know where that is.","author":"Eve Ensler","tags":["feminism","rape"],"id":11505,"author_id":"Eve+Ensler"},{"text":"Her friends used to tell her it wasn't rape if the man was your husband. She didn't say anything, but inside she seethed; she wanted to take a knife to their faces.","author":"F. H. Batacan","tags":["crime","f-h-batacan","marital-rape","rape","rape-culture","smaller-and-smaller-circles"],"id":11866,"author_id":"F.+H.+Batacan"},{"text":"I love Sara, but something was taken from me at the church, something that she can’t relate to. Every time I walk outside I think maybe someone is going to grab me. I take a sip of a glass of water I got out of my own tap and swish it around in my mouth first, like maybe it’s a threat. And I’m starting to understand why Alex walks around on the balls of her feet, why her back muscles are always tensed, like a cat ready to spring.She knows. She gets it. So that’s why I’m going to tell Sara that I’m okay and leave it at that.","author":"Mindy McGinnis","tags":["rape","rape-aftermath"],"id":13230,"author_id":"Mindy+McGinnis"},{"text":"Women are lot more stronger then men, not just mentally but even physically, not only do they look beautiful in any form, but are also blessed with there caring nature which they have by birth.. What do men need more then this to respect a women??? Handling a family is equivalent to handling a big corporate office.. N she does it very well..Respect her beauty by praising it n don't dis-respect it by passing dirty comments.. Some mentally ill men RAPE a women, but dis-respect every women including there mother n sisters with this act... And cause of such mentally ill men, every man is ashamed of being a Male/Man..","author":"honeya","tags":["corporate","force","men","mentally-ill","mother","rape","respect-women","sister","strong-women","wise-words","women"],"id":13937,"author_id":"honeya"},{"text":"You’re not the same. You’re not supposed to be the same. You’re supposed to be different. This isn’t something you will ever forget.","author":"Daisy Whitney","tags":["memories","memory","ptsd","rape","trauma","trauma-memories","traumatic-experiences","violence"],"id":14684,"author_id":"Daisy+Whitney"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":246,"pages":25,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}