Ann Dixon

“Campbell drew up a list of 22 risk factors for domestic violence, including substance use, possession of firearms and evidence of extreme jealousy, death threats, strangulation or forced sex, isolation from friends and family, suicide, threats by the predator and stalking were also telltale signs. The whole catalog of abuse, a cartography of violence that we did not see and that we now see.”
― Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

“The investigations of Jacqueline Campbell, a nurse from Michigan who specialized in domestic violence cases, led to the adoption of the first danger assessment tool in the United States. Based on her own experience caring for numerous patients, Campbell developed test questions to help assess and, when appropriate, to diagnose the level of danger faced by women who came to emergency rooms with bruises, broken bones or strangulation marks. Believing that these were incidents that belonged to the private lives of their patients, doctors had previously refrained from asking further questions about how they got hurt, leaving women unprotected. The test developed by Campbell allowed doctors and nurses to treat violence against women as a matter of public health and granted these patients and women more broadly away to identify the severity of their situation.”
― Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

“From a water expert, I learned that water carries specific isotopic signatures, so if you've lived in a place any length of time, it's particular water marks your bones.”
― Alison Fensterstock, How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music

“No doubt I disappointed my mother by returning home again from Saint Andrews without having managed to become engaged to a man with a Scottish castle. But a few years later, working at a bookstore in Boston, I met a fellow bookseller, an expatriate, Scott, who'd been at Saint Andrews the same time as I was. No, we'd never met each other. We had, in fact, been in the same spaces many times, at concerts, at student dances, and so on. But neither of us had ever noticed the other. And now we are married… The music is the same but never in the same place in that same moment. The familiar song accompanying me as I kept on moving. How he and I missed each other the first time around, on every possible. Occasion and then managed to find each other after all. Kelly Link, Turning the Tables, contributor.”
― Alison Fensterstock, How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music