"I have always, and continue to think ‘you don’t know me, therefore I won’t let you think you can..."

“I have always, and continue to think ‘you don’t know me, therefore I won’t let you think you can affect me’. What people like that see when they look at you, or any other woman, is the same person: it’s a deliberate attempt at dehumanisation to gain a kind of control. Violation is of course mental as well as physical, but the thing to try and hold on to is the knowledge that maintaining a strength of mind goes a long way in lessening someone’s ability to try and wrest that control from you. Wherever possible, treat it like excess noise. Block it out, focus on the voices that amplify your strength.”

- Tomoe Hill for “The Mira Project”
(via viperslang)