“We were just having fun, working the night shift, you know? You had to do things to pass the time.”— Lynndie England
“We have the right to be protected from sexual abuse. We have the right to be protected from sexual exploitation.”— Andrea Dworkin
“All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting a stop to it.”— bell hooks
“Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.”— Dave Pelzer
“Let's be clear. The sexual abuser is the one who is responsible. What the victim does...is irrelevant. It is the abuser who is responsible.”— Andrea Dworkin
“What I saw was a photograph of a male detainee with a dog... and the dog was barking, and the dog was very close to the detainee.”— Janis Karpinski
“The first time you beat me up was after we had been seeing each other for a year...”— Nicole Brown Simpson
“They were having fun. They were joking. It was—I don't know. I just thought it was funny.”— Lynndie England
“Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well-considered, and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit.”— Erik H. Erikson
“I know that the caustic chemicals were used on the prisoners. I know that they were kept naked for days at a time, that they were hooded, that they were sleep deprived, that they were starved.”— Janis Karpinski