Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice by Virginia Roberts Giuffre

BATB score: 7/10

RIP Virginia Giuffre; thank you for this memoir, thank you for fighting the #metoo #Epsteinfiles movement, thank you for shedding light on the corrupted powerfuls

Best to: know that Jeffrey Epstein is not an anomaly but the norm

Best as: case of the decade Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell vs. 500+ underage trafficked girls

BATB lingering thought: I don’t know how you wrap your brain to wanting to have children knowing how messed up this world is; white powerful men.. I hope you have a son

Best for: followers of Jeffrey Epstein’s case wanting to know more from the victim’s POV especially on why they weren’t locked up but they chose to stay

Best quotes: “Do you know why this world is as bad as it is? It is because people think only about their own business, and won’t trouble themselves to stand up for the oppressed, nor bring the wrong-doers to light. My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.”

“Pathetically, I was trading on the only part of me that anyone seemed to care about - my body - while my soul remained on the sidelines, ignored.”

“And everything that had happened to me in Epstein’s world had only confirmed that certain privileged men existed in a liminal space outside the law, no matter how dastardly their behavior.”

“A culture that tells girls their primary worth is to appeal to men; a culture that tells men that young girls are the ideal - the younger, as Epstein said, the better. […] because of those societal forces, when a molester shows his face, many people tend to look the other way.”