Sarah Silverman Quotes

…rape, incest, and me.

When I was raped I lost my virginity and almost lost my life. I also discarded certain assumptions I had held about how the world worked and about how safe I was.

Folks working late, I had a babysitter. I ain't about to sit here and name her. I was almost 8 when she came in late, woke me up with a game to play. Did a few things that it's hard to say. Told me to keep that secret safe. I'm trying to act like it ain't real. Had my innocence just stripped from me, and I still don't know how to feel.

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.

Even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that is something that God intended to happen.

When you're traumatized, you pick out one thing you remember more than anything else.

It is difficult to have the guts to speak up about any kind of sexual assault.

But over 20 years ago I was a victim of rape. And thank god it didn't result in a pregnancy. Because I can't imagine going through what I went through and then having to consider what to do about an unwanted pregnancy from an attacker.

I first came to Delhi with my parents when I was 15 years old. We went to see the Red Fort, and I was walking behind my parents, and some guy who was walking along touched me inappropriately. I screamed, but he was acting so cool about it. I did not create any further scene and left.

Early days, I was a bit racked , particularly when I did Hitler, for CBS . That was hellish. That stayed with me for quite a long time.

It wasn't enough to be kidnapped, I had to be insulted too.

She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped - by me.

...and trauma had a way of burning memories deeper into the mind.

You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.

The trauma of the whole thing has been humbling, and for the first time, I'm a little bit wobbly.

I don't think people fully appreciate the trauma associated with losing. It takes a lot out of you, year after year.

Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.

Seeing your mother naked is not something you easily recover from. Seeing your mother naked and jumping from one side of a king-sized bed to the other with a nurse's hat on while your father, who is also naked, is chasing her with a bandanna around his neck, is reason to put yourself up for adoption.

Tell me where are the flashbacks they all warned us would come?

Most of my friends that I know now [were sexually assaulted] stayed silent. And I see that still happening today. A lot of women will stay silent and not share what happened to them.

I don't think grief of grief in a medical way at all. I think that I and many of my colleagues, are very concerned when grief becomes pathological, that there is no question that grief can trigger depression in vulnerable people and there is no question that depression can make grief worse.

I diagnosed my loneliness as premature empty nest syndrome.

Of course I have nightmares-Who doesn't?

When you're dealing with killing people and things that are upsetting, that can be a delicate place to occupy yourself for a day.

I feel worthless. My girlfriend was attacked on the subway yesterday. And I can't even enjoy it.