After Silence: Rape & My Journey Back

"Silence has the rusty taste of shame. The words shut up are the most terrible words I know. . . . The man who raped me spat these words out over and over during the hours of my attack—when I screamed, when I tried to talk him out of what he was doing, when I protested. It seemed to me that for seven years—until at last I spoke—these words had sunk into my soul and become prophecy. And it seems to me now that these words, the brutish message of tyrants, preserve the darkness that still cove...