Sexual Abuse, Assault, and Rape Awareness
Quotes
Warning: Some of these quotes are graphic. These quotes have not been censored for language or content. Many of these quotes are from survivors and often depict their opinion about sexual crimes, predators, etc. These quotes may be triggering to survivors. Please read with caution.
The other day when I was walking, I saw a beautiful butterfly flittering in the sky. I was struck by how beautiful yet graceful and fragile it appeared to be. Then the thought occurred to me that although we may see a butterfly as having fragile wings and being this delicate creature, the butterfly is also very very strong. For the butterfly had to have strength when it was a caterpillar to break through that cocoon and learn how to fly. Survivors are the same way. Yes, our hearts are fragile and delicate in some areas from the pain we went through. Yet at the same time, we have so much strength to us for breaking away from the life we once had and for shattering our silence as we create this new life for ourselves. We've moved on from that part of our lives and now we begin to embark on a new journey as we live a life free from abuse.
-Unknown
"Rape's not something where you just go, "Well, get over it" or "Believe in love and peace, my child, and it'll all be over." Well, fuck you, that isn't the answer. It's a great thought, OK, but you can go and stick crystals up your butt and get on with it. I'm all for love and peace, but that's not the side I work on. If somebody would talk about it, or worse, joke about it, I would be ready to kill. That's not healing. It was a very long time after that before I was able to be with anyone again. And it has never been the same as it was before"
-Tori Amos
"Do unto others as they do unto you, if only that was an option then I'd run a foreign object up his ass while he bleeds and screams in agony to please stop."
-Anonymous Survivor
-As Prime Minister, Golda Meir was asked to place a curfew on women to end a series of rapes. However, she refused, saying...-
"But it is the men who are attacking the women. If there is to be a curfew, let the men stay at home."
-Prime Minister Golda Meir
"Sexual Abuse is a good way to for perpetrators to mess you up for the rest of your life and make you disfunctional. It's also caused me to treat women differently and not appreciate them as much."
-Male Survivor
"Bad guys that hurt kids should be shrunken and kicked out of the city or flushed down the toilet."
-9 yr old child
"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the
outgoing guts to do it,
and the imagination to improvise. the worst
enemy to creativity is self doubt."
-Sylvia Plath
"I have a solution for sexual predators: I'd like to cut off their penis and shove it down their throat until they choke to death on it!"
-Anonymous Survivor
"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."
-Thomas Edison
"I never really cared about the children. I only cared about myself and what I wanted."
-Child Molester
"My dream job is to be the torturer in hell. Even though I deserve to go to heaven, I know I deserve more, the opportunity to torture (for eternity) the sick people that have tormented others here on earth."
-Anonymous Survivor
"I worry that my only son will grow up to be an offender because he was abused."
-Mother of a 6 year old male victim
"Child Abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime."
-Herbert Ward