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April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month.


Char Blodgett

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(Today) is End Sexual Violence Day, the kick off to Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
CHARLOTTE CONJELKO April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. We felt this was a good time of year to plan this event, to...
TRISH KLEY Sexual assault is any sexual contact with someone without his or her consent.
COREY COOK This is not just sexual harassment, if it's true. It's sexual assault, ... Late Edition.
PATRICIA IRELAND It's a day to think about prevention of sexual assault and to provide support to survivors of sexual...
LINDA HERBERT The boy I thought was my boyfriend pushed me to the ground. He took my clothes off, and I lay there ...
ROXANE GAY April is the cruellest month.
T. S. ELIOT When abstinence curricula contain information about sexual abuse or assault (though they often don't...
JESSICA VALENTI They remember either waking up and being aware of clear evidence of a sexual assault, or they woke u...
HUGH GRAF Forgiveness can be very hard, but not impossible....each victim/survivor in their own way and time c...
CATHY GIPSON It's considered a shameful crime. The court process is not easy on them. Their past gets dragged up.
CHAR BLODGETT It's not something that you ever get over.
CHAR BLODGETT This shows that sexual assault does happen here.
TARA FISHER Domestic violence and sexual assault go hand in hand.
GEORGIA TAYLOR [Referring to rape] It already is bigger than everything else. It lives in front of me, behind me, n...
DAISY WHITNEY It was a sexual assault, but we can't get into specifics.
JEFF PEARSON You better have somebody seeing sexual assault victims who is willing to provide emergency contracep...
JANET MCDOWELL April can be a violent month.
BRIAN AVERY April. Month of dust and lies.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ He committed a sexual assault and asked them to perform certain things.
BARBARA MILLER The silence was killing me.

And that's all there ever was. Silence. It was all I knew. Ke...
J. LYNN We are defining sexual assault, and letting people know how to prevent it.
CINDY STEWART We can assume there are increased numbers of reported sexual assaults (not necessarily increased sex...
KRIS OLDS Women who are harassed, at work, on the street, or even online, are subject to the same rigid purity...
JESSICA VALENTI In addition to shaming sexual-assault victims, positioning abstinence as women's domain further prom...
JESSICA VALENTI My mom doesn't say anything. I don't say anything. Neither of us knows yet what you should say when ...
JOANNA CONNORS Hand off my ass or I'll rip off your balls.
KATIE MCGARRY There is no evidence other than the word of this one complaining person that any rape or sexual assa...
JOSEPH CHESHIRE It is demeaning and extremely embarrassing and every bit as violating as a sexual assault. It ought ...
JAMES PAPILLO April will be a very important month for us,
JOE HOPKINS They're very helpful to these boys in showing there was no rape or sexual assault.
JOE CHESHIRE April seems set to be another month of spiraling violence.
HEDI ANNABI I am not only overwhelmed with excitement to be back in the seat but also to show my support to help...
AMBER COPE allegations of improper conduct, let alone sexual assault, on my part are untrue and entirely withou...
ALEX FERGUSON A man of the mouth, formerly the most oral of surgeons, Henry had the habit of giving his lady patie...
A.M. HOMES a quick turn around a corner
and my planet becomes sand
on the shore of a dying Universe
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. I just want to sleep. The whole point of not talking about it, of silencing the memory, is to make i...
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON Victims of sexual assault experience traumatic, life-changing events, ... We should work to protect ...
CAROLYN MALONEY APRIL FOOL, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
AMBROSE BIERCE People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assau...
P.D. JAMES In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and h...
CATHARINE MACKINNON Punishing the prostitute promotes the rape of all women. When prostitution is a crime, the message c...
MARGO ST. JAMES April has been running way above normal. The average monthly temperature (this month) is 78.8, which...
ALFREDO VEGA It was a catch-22: If you didn’t put the trauma behind you, you couldn’t move on. But if you did...
JODI PICOULT Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, t...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, t...
CAMILLE PAGLIA I should meet many people who do not know anyone personally who has been raped or molested as a chil...
ANNA C. SALTER I can line up these moments of violence, precariously as dominoes. Sometimes I worry they will all f...
JENNIFER PATTERSON March is Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month. Don't feel bad if you did not know that. I didn't, ...
MAYSOON ZAYID April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirrin...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, s...
T.S. ELIOT (THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT) April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirrin...
T.S. ELIOT The Army understands that a retired sergeant major made a complaint against the current Sergeant Maj...
ARMY SGT. Mr. Matthew thankfully has been excluded as a suspect, ... He has been conclusively shown not to hav...
DAVID CHAPMAN It's a time to get better informed about the problems and realities of sexual assault ... to discuss...
JAN DAVIS There is much more happening in March, and we usually expect a bit of a lull in April. April was a m...
FRANK STRESHLEY The Executive Office of the President seems to care more about hiding the truth about military sexua...
BOB FILNER Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual persona...
CAMILLE PAGLIA We had sufficient evidence for probable cause to obtain search warrants in this case. And we are con...
KAMMIE MICHAEL She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the th...
SARAH DESSEN In every charge, in every count, she was an active participant in the sexual assault of these childr...
DAVID LAMB You know all the ways you can kill a girl?

God, there are so many.
COURTNEY SUMMERS It is important to realize that girls' arrests for homicide, robbery, and rape/sexual assault have n...
DARRELL STEFFENSMEIER This should cause the employment rate to increase and the unemployment rate to decrease for the mont...
WAYNE GASSON During the month of March and April, and possibly a little into May, we will complete all 13 interse...
BARB SECKLER As you may know, when someone endures a horrific event like a car accident or a sexual assault, the ...
DAN BROWN Sometimes it feels like my queerness was always there but I was too shell-shocked and splintered by ...
JENNIFER PATTERSON Hatred was easy. The permutations constant over the years: A stranger at a fair who palmed my crotch...
EMMA CLINE April is the cruelest month, breeding
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desir...
T.S. ELIOT It is really important to tell the stories so we can see how unique they can be ... bringing (storie...
ELEN SEMRAN These results showed exactly what we knew all along. No rape or sexual assault happened in that hous...
JOE CHESHIRE First we used to make just one or two buses a month. on Tuesday this has gone up to 10 buses. From A...
JACOB KURUVILLA Making someone feel obligated, pressured or forced into doing something of a sexual nature that they...
MIYA YAMANOUCHI I think we need to see what the breakdown is, ... Have people backed off a bit from reporting [sexua...
CAROLYN BENNETT Real patriots are the women who witnessed their assaulter claim dominion over red, white, and blue a...
BRITT GREIFELD The military has been making great progress in the last year in regards to adult sexual assault case...
JULISA DELAMAR Memory repression thrives in shame, secrecy, and shock. The shame and degradation experienced during...
RENEE FREDRICKSON April is National Kite Month, and we as advocates can think of no better symbol than that of a kite ...
BETTY JOHNSON We have arrested several people over the last several years that had pistol permits or weapons in th...
MIKE RUTHERFORD The decision sends a message that in respect to people who are infected with the HIV virus, that it ...
ANDREW MACDONALD We found the event to be a unique way to reach the young adult population in Routt County to raise a...
DIANE MOORE Clearly, the Justice Department reviewed documents highlighting the importance of helping sexual ass...
LOUISE MELLING Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a h...
ABERJHANI Victims are often reluctant to report a sexual assault for a number of reasons, such as fear of reta...
COREY COOK We're here to give visibility to and promote awareness of the issue of women's rights. We're giving ...
JANE WEBB For anyone who wonders what it's like to have a tragedy shatter your existence, this is what I would...
SARAHBETH CAPLIN The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape v...
JODI PICOULT Sexual assault is an important issue across the country and the world. I think it is really importan...
EMILY SAUNDERS In all the interviews I have done, I cannot remember one offender who did not admit privately to mor...
ANNA C. SALTER This is our first year to do this event. But we hope to be able to do it every year as a part of Mar...
AMY JACKSON Since most sexual abuse begins well before puberty, preventive education, if it is to have any effec...
JUDITH LEWIS HERMAN Since most sexual abuse begins well before puberty, preventive education, if it is to have any effec...
JUDITH LEWIS HERMAN William Henry Harrison, who died of pneumonia in April of 1841, after only one month in office, was ...
ROBERT DALLEK This week is probably a week for keeping heads down. Turnover in the European market continues to dr...
TIM HARRIS We made up our minds that we VMI 34 CHAR. SOUTH. 12weren't going to let it happen this year.
ROBERT MASON The total for the year is only 19.46 inches. Of this amount, only .13 of an inch fell in December on...
STUART CHILTON It's easy not to abuse your power when you don't actually have any power.
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY The general market earlier in the month had one of the steepest declines since April. But energy pri...
GARY SCHLOSSBERG For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to h...
JOHN THORN I draw a line down the middle of a chalkboard, sketching a male symbol on one side and a female symb...
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