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“No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of me, so how could I have explained it to them?”
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.

“Today I wore a pair of faded old jeans and a plain grey baggy shirt. I hadn't even taken a shower, and I did not put on an ounce of makeup. I grabbed a worn out black oversized jacket to cover myself with even though it is warm outside. I have made conscious decisions lately to look like less of what I felt a male would want to see. I want to disappear.”
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.

“It is not a single crime when a child is photographed while sexually assaulted (raped.) It is a life time crime that should have life time punishments attached to it. If the surviving child is, more often than not, going to suffer for life for the crime(s) committed against them, shouldn't the pedophiles suffer just as long? If it often takes decades for survivors to come to terms with exactly how much damage was caused to them, why are there time limits for prosecution?”
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.

“Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do.”
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.

“Imagine the message that sent to my sister and me. A cousin violates us, confesses, and walks away with barely a slap on the wrist. I learned at a young age that if I was ever going to see justice for the wrongs done to me, I had to find it myself.”
― Erin Merryn, Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness

“The story of my birth that my mother told me went like this: "When you were coming out I wasn't ready yet and neither was the nurse. The nurse tried to push you back in, but I shit on the table and when you came out, you landed in my shit."

If there ever was a way to sum things up, the story of my birth was it.”
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.

“The child gives, because the body can, and the mind of the violator cannot.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“The rape of a child is a violent act of contempt, not an expression of sexuality or affection.”
― Mike Lew, Gay Men and Childhood Sexual Trauma: Integrating the Shattered Self

“John was still making comments regarding violent things that he shouldn't, but I hoped he was just being a big mouth. Nobody was going to listen to me anyway.”
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.

“He told me that if I hung up, he'd do it. He would commit suicide. He told me that if I called the cops he would kill every single one of them and I knew that he had the potential and the means to do it”
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.

“At times I am flabbergasted that my memory is considered false and my alcoholic father's memory is considered rational and sane.

Am I not believed because I am a woman?

If Peter Freyd were a man who lived in my neighborhood during my childhood instead of my father, would he and his wife be so believable? If not, what is it about his status as my father that makes him more credible?”
― Jennifer J. Freyd

“كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعرها, أصرخ في وجهها "لم تحافظي على نفسك, إياك أن تخبري أحدا بالأمر". و ذات مرة ضبطتنا شقيقتي خديجة بالجرم المشهود, سحبتني من ضفيرتي الطويلة كالدواب. أخذت تبحث عن شيء موجود بين فخذي. كلم يريدون ذلك الشيء الموجود بين الفخذين.”
― مليكة مستظرف, جراح الروح والجسد

“MALE I AM ASHAMED
"Male, I am ashamed today to be or not to be.
Seeing your pleasures gained with bleeding stains.
The pain and agony that satisfies thy libido insane.
Hardness to limp life gone in a blink.
Age no bar, nor relation is, and oh male your
image is getting marred.
The day is not far when
Family, friends and society will scorn when a male is born because of some prick-ing thorns.”
― Amit Abraham

“The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measures to be clasped within the purview of its social fabric. The legislators of great economies on the other hand have retrospectively identified the offense, researched, debated and have successfully handed down several yards of legislation with ingrained penalties and punishment for the trespassers of what they think as appropriate, bearing in mind basic human rights of the offenders.
And the sword of Damocles continues to haunt tiny sprouts of the society, ripping their souls and plunging them to misery, despair or death, to which several national and international judicial precedents bear witness.”
― Henrietta Newton Martin

“The question that remains unanswered and keeps coming to the fore is ‘Are the punishment schemes for child sex and sexual abuse deterrent in nature? Amidst ongoing debates in most countries about capital punishment as human rights violation to be inflicted in rarest of rare cases, and those who have abrogated capital punishment from their list of penalties, there is a need to transcend all national and international boundaries, and bring Child sexual abuse/rape within the ambit of international legislators, and law enforcement agencies, with a drive to pilot child rights of protection of his/her body much beyond the prevalent inefficacious laws, devoid of collective consensus of the people.”
― Henrietta Newton Martin

“لم يكن بمقدوري سوى الهروب إلى عالمي الخاص: إلى الحلم. أتخيلني وقد كبرت فجأة.
عندما كان الكبار يسألون الصغار عما يريدون أن يكونوا في المستقبل, كان الجواب دائما واحدا من اثنين : إما أطباء أو معلمون.
لكن لم أكن أعرف بما أجيب, لأنني لا أعرف بالضبط ماذا أريد. كل ما أعرفه هو أنني أعشق السفر. أتخيلني و قد سافرت بعيدا بعيدا جدا. أحلم أن لي طفلة أضمها إلي, أمنحها الحب و فساتين كثيرة و لعبا. أبدا لن تكون أقل من الأخريات, لن أنهرها, لن أكوي فخذها بل سأخفيها عن العيون القذرة. لكن أبدا لا أحلم بزوج. لم أكن أستطيع أن أتخيلني عروسا بفستان أبيض. حاولت مرارا تخيل شكل العريس فيتراءى لي وجه "قدور" القذر, أستفيق من حلمي مرعوبة على واقع أشد رعبا.”
― مليكة مستظرف, جراح الروح والجسد

“Can I scream at monsters? I really wish I knew that it was monsters who said I love you before they broke my flesh to satisfy theirs. Some one should of mentented that monster dont just live under my bed, they walk around leaving egg shells around my hell that is disguised as home. My monsters didnt have to break in, the door was always left ajar. To answer the question, the monsters always win, so dont scream.”
― A. Starr