Someone I Used to Know Quotes

“These don't look so bad, right? Maybe you think women are overreacting when they talk about stuff like this. But there's the thing... women keep telling us this crap makes them uncomfortable. And what do we do?" Ted waits a beat. " We ignore them. We tell them to lighten up, accept a compliment, stop making everything about them, and that's wrong. It is about them. We should be strong enough to be able to back off when women tell us the things we do scare them.”
― Patty Blount, Someone I Used to Know

“Every time there’s a terrorist attack, everybody starts screaming for border closings and tighter security at airports. Does anybody ever shrug it off and say, ‘Oh, it’s just extremists being extremists?’ So why do you say, ‘Oh, it’s just boys being boys,’ when you terrorize girls? Because that is what you’re doing. Terrorizing us.”
― Patty Blount, Someone I Used to Know

“Forgiveness is rarely this once-and-done thing. It’s an ongoing battle, a struggle to remember that love is worth more than pain, and that fighting for it matters more than a grudge.”
― Patty Blount, Someone I Used to Know

“I’m a person, not a trophy, not a game. I deserve justice.”
― Patty Blount, Someone I Used to Know

“I always tell her I don't care what's normal after what happened; I just want normal - without qualifiers. I want to open my closet, pull on any outfit, and not obsess about people thinking I'm asking for it.”
― Patty Blount, Someone I Used to Know

“I get that. But I don’t want things easier. I don’t want them different. I don’t want you gone. You’re not some kind of duty. I like you. I like hanging out with you. I like being with you. I like you.”
― Patty Blount, Someone I Used to Know

“This is rape culture - this tendency for good men, the kind of men who say they're outraged by rape, to repeatedly ignore and maybe even support the behaviors that excuse rape.”
― Patty Blount, Someone I Used to Know