Amanda Knox

“Our long history of exploiting women's bodies and suppressing their voices had a direct impact on my case and other women's lives.”

“In a time when my entire family had already tapped into their retirement savings and taken out second mortgages, we were grateful when any supporters, including Trump, donated to my defense and spoke out about my innocence.”

“I've gained a seriousness that has to do with a certain perspective, a gratitude for being able to see the importance of things. And that lends itself a gravity to everything. And that is something that I sort of carry as a weight but a good weight inside of me.”

“I know I have not always been understandable and that I was guided for too long by stubborn naivety, which created confusion.”

“I'm always trying to feel less stress.”

“All wrongfully convicted people are portrayed as monsters. But there's a special kind of monster that is a woman.”

“I was not aware of a ton of the stuff that was being said about me out in the world since I wasn't able to get British or American headlines from my prison cell in Perugia. But I was aware that in the courtroom, I was being called a succubus, a man-eater, 'Foxy Knoxy.'”

“I know I may appear spacey, but that's how I am.”

“A good way to vilify women is by attacking their sexuality.”

“I have a great amount of respect for life, and I always think that no matter how bad situations get, you can always make something out of it.”

“Politics is not a tit-for-tat game. It's not 'I helped you, now you help me.'”

“I don't want to get married for the sake of getting married. My hope is that I have a partner with whom I can continue to take on the world.”

“I am living in this world, and if this world already has a certain prejudice of me and an idea of me, then it's really hard for me to go through it.”

“I think the fact that my case was so sensationalized is because I am a white woman.”

“Everyone deals with tragedy in his own way.”

“I had to grow up in prison for something I did not do.”

“Like most millennials, I have the bad, anxiety-inducing habit of grabbing my phone in the morning and scrolling through social media for 15, 20 minutes before I'm fully awake.”

“You can always do something that can make you feel good about your life despite what you're going through.”

“That is the thing that I was scared of - that I would know intellectually that there's something to glean out of life, but that I would be so broken that I wouldn't care.”

“I think it's true that people seemed to have had a kind of tunnel vision in my regard, and that has been something that I've been having to fight against for a long time.”