I am going to stop mainlining my life force / Into your self-esteem: / Air pump girl blowing up boy rubber ball / You can stay flat and go nowhere by yourself

Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls.

At first women were reluctant to talk. They were a little shy, but once they got going, you couldn't stop them.

It seems to me there's this tyranny that's not accidental or incidental, to make women feel compelled to look like somebody they're not. I think the effort is being made to get us to turn our time and attention to this instead of important political issues.

We are focusing on bringing the stories of these women to the world. These stories must be told if we are going to stop this from happening again.

I want to read
so I can read the Koran
read the signs in the street
know the number of the bus
I'm supposed to take
when I one day leave this house.