Sophie Evelien DB

“Does the difference matter? someone else asked. Does it matter whether the law seeks to protect you because you are an individual or because of the group of which you happen to be a member? That question floated around the room, and it has remained with me ever since.”
― Philippe Sands, East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"

“Voelde me langzaam anders worden, merkte dat ik iemand werd die ik niet wilde zijn. Nee, diep vanbinnen wás ik iemand die ik niet wilde zijn. Omdat het anders was, omdat mensen erover zouden praten, omdat ik in andere landen verboden was. Niemand had me gevraagd of ik dit wilde zijn. Niemand had bij me geïnformeerd wat ik ervan zou vinden. Niemand had verteld hoe ik ermee om moest gaan. Opeens was ik het gewoon. En hoe hard, hoe lang, hoe heftig ik het ook bleef ontkennen, ik kon het niet tegenhouden.”
― Splinter Chabot, Confettiregen

“Man's discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear must rank as one of the most important discoveries of prehistoric times along with the use of fire and the first crude stone axe," concluded the American writer Susan Brownmiller in her groundbreaking account of rape, Against Our Will, published in 1975”
― Christina Lamb, Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women

“Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane