Emily supposed the modern world was fortunate in the progress of science. But she could not help but feel at this moment the impropriety of male invasiveness. She knew he was working to save this poor woman, but in her mind, too, was a sense of Wrede's science as adding to the abuse committed by his fellow soldiers. He said not a word. It was as if the girl were no more than the surgical challenge she offered. E.L. Doctorow
The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.
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Anonymous
What's the point of obsessing over cholesterol or bike helmets or even cigarettes when the biggest threats to our children are being released back into society every day? Yes, maybe 'some' of them have reformed, but what about the ones who haven't? Doesn't anyone realize...
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Laura Wiess
Greater sexual freedom expands the grey area between consensual sex and rape
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None
Roman ignored her and took her ankles and flipped them purposefully, but because of her hands she could not turn all the way and ended up with her legs scissored unintuitively, and suddenly things were different. Ashley had heard girls tell stories of getting into...
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Brian McGreevy
The silence was killing me. And that's all there ever was. Silence. It was all I knew. Keep quiet. Pretend nothing had happened, that nothing was wrong. And look how well that was turning out.
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J. Lynn
More Quotes By E.L. Doctorow
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.
Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.
Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing.
