When you are going through hell, keep on going.
Never never never give up.
-Winston Churchill
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
-Ghandi
If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
-Thomas Edison
Peace.
It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work.
It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.
-Unknown
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising each time we fall.
Confucius
The world is a dangerous place to live,
not because of the people who are evil,
but because of the people who don't do anything about it
-Albert Einstien
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Although the world is full of suffering,
it is also full of the overcoming of it.
-Helen Keller
Experience is not what happens to you;
it's what you do with what happens to you.
-Adlous Huxley
Never be bullied into silence.
Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
-Harvey Fierstein
I can only be responsible for my own happiness.
-Paul
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.
-Albert Camus
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
-Theodore Parker
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
-Marcel Proust
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
-Abraham Lincoln
Crises refine life.
In them you discover what you are.
-Allen K. Chalmers
One may not reach the dawn
save by path of night.
-Khalil Gribram
The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.
-Jacques Bénigne Bossuet
One must still have chaos in oneself
to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
-Niestzsche
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
We are powerful because we have survived.
I have come to believe over and over again, that what is most important to me must be spoken,
When I dare to be powerful,
Your silence will not protect you. I want a twenty-four hour truce in which there is no rape. If you have a conception of freedom without rape, you are wrong.
-Andrea Dworkin, speaking to a group of five hundred men.
It is nothing less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear.
"Of course I am afraid, Women's sanity has been saved by bringing these hidden experiences into the open, naming them
Words on Survival
Rape is a crime against sleep and memory.
Violence sends deep roots into the heart Still I weep for what I cannot change.
Healing is a continuous process. The way out is to tell: I was not only a survivor, but a witness to my own survival. For traumatic experiences, "forgetting" is impossible, yet remembering is the last thing you want to do.
I learned that some redemption can come from even the deepest of losses.
The victims of rape must carry their memories with them for the rest of their lives.
made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
to use my strength in the service of my vision,
then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
-Audrey Lourde
I dare you to try it.
I demand that you try it.
I don't mind begging you to try it.
Susan Brownmiller, author of "Against our Will: Men and Women Against Rape
because the transformation of silence into language in action is an act of self-revelation,
and that always seems fraught with danger.
But my daughter, when I told her of our topic and my difficulty with it, said,
'Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent,
because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out,
and if you keep ignoring it,
it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter,
and if you don't speak it out,
one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside'."
-Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider
and turning our rage into positive action to reduce and heal violence.
-Gloria Steinem, foreword to The Vagina Monologues
Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
Rape affects all aspect of one's life and being and one has to work continuously to become whole and intact.
Pieces of myself are coming slowly together. I am different, but I accept that.
Speak of the acts perpetrated upon us, speak the atrocities, speak the injustices, speak the personal violations of the soul.
Someone will listen, someone will believe our stories, someone will join us.
Charlotte Pierce-Baker -author of Surviving the Silence
I saw, too, that however painful my feelings of the past year had been,
The pain had not, after all, replaced other feelings, but only hidden them from sight.
They must not also carry the burden of silence and shame.
Nancy Venable Raine -After Silence, Rape and my Journey Back
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