Nostalgia is powerful. It is natural, human, to long for the past, particularly when we can remember our histories as better than they were. - Roxane Gay

Just because you survive something does not mean you are strong.

A woman should always have the right to choose what she does with her body. It is frustrating that this needs to be said, repeatedly.

My unarticulated logic went like this: if I give my body away, over and over, I can prove to myself that sex is my choice — even though, and this seems significant now, I always let the men choose me. Until I was nineteen years old, it never occurred to me that I could do the choosing. Not you, not you, not you. Yes, okay. You.