Emma Sulkowicz quotes

“For me, I was raped in my own dorm bed. Since then, it has basically become fraught for me, and I feel like I've carried the weight of what happened there with me everywhere since then.”
-- Emma Sulkowicz

Source : "Columbia University Student Will Drag Her Mattress Around Campus Until Her Rapist Is Gone" by Sarah Barness, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2014.

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“There's a reason survivors choose not to go to the police, and that's because they're treated as the criminals. The rapists are innocent until proven guilty, but survivors are guilty until proven innocent - at least in the eyes of the police.”
-- Emma Sulkowicz

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“Sexual assault is neither a ‘light’ nor ‘fluffy’ matter, and we cannot treat it as if it were.”
-- Emma Sulkowicz

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“Sexual assault is neither a ‘light’ nor ‘fluffy’ matter, and we cannot treat it as if it were.”
-- Emma Sulkowicz

#Light Quotes #Matter Quotes #Fluffy Quotes

“Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.”

“You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.”

Source : A.L. Kennedy (2010). “Original Bliss”, p.74, Random House

“Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.”

Source : "Dwayne Johnson Talks Race to Witch Mountain". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. August 4, 2009.

“I go to bed at 2 a.m. and get up at 7 a.m. - I've never been a sleeper. But I definitely get sick every month-and-a-half.”

“She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds.”

“It was Mrs. Campbell, for instance, who, on a celebrated occasion, threw her companion into a flurry by describing her recent marriage as "the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue."”

Source : Alexander Woollcott (1951). “The Indispensable Woollcott”

“Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe from the violent without or within.”

“Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.”

Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary”, p.46, Faber & Faber

“Facebook wasn't built out of a Harvard dorm window.”

Source : "Facebook co-founder worried about privacy on Facebook". www.foxnews.com. May 29, 2012.

“It's incredible to be young and live here and not have to clean up your dorm room.”