“There are times when I just want to walk through a room, grab that girl, slap her hard and make her cry. Push her down and fuck her mind over twice as hard as her body. Sometimes, I want to be that girl.”

— Laura Antoniou

Source: "Unsafe at Any Speed or: Safe, Sane and Consensual, My Fanny", p. 14

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American novelist 1963

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