"I am here not because I want to be. I'm terrified. I am here because I believe it is my civic duty to tell you what happened to me while Brett Kavanaugh and I were in high school."
"Once he was selected and it seemed like he was popular and it was a sure vote, I was calculating daily the risk/benefit for me of coming forward, and wondering whether I would just be jumping in front of a train that was headed to where it was headed anyway and that I would just be personally annihilated."
"Apart from the assault itself, these last couple of weeks have been the hardest of my life. I have had to relive my trauma in front of the entire world. … I have been accused of acting out of partisan political motives. … I am a fiercely independent person and I am no one's pawn."
"It is not my responsibility to determine whether Mr. Kavanaugh deserves to sit on the Supreme Court. My responsibility is to tell the truth."
"I truly wish I could be more helpful with more detailed answers to all of the questions that have and will be asked about how I got to the party and where it took place and so forth. I don't have all the answers, and I don't remember as much as I would like to. But the details that — about that night that bring me here today are the ones I will never forget. They have been seared into my memory, and have haunted me episodically as an adult."
Asked by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., how she could be sure that it was Kavanaugh who had put his hand over her mouth to prevent her from screaming: "The same way that I'm sure that I'm talking to you right now. Basic memory function."
Asked for the most vivid memory from the night of the alleged attack: "Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter. Laughter — the uproarious laughter between the two. They were laughing with each other. ... I was underneath one of them while the two laughed."
"I believed he was going to rape me. I tried to yell for help. When I did, Brett put his hand over my mouth to stop me from yelling. This is what terrified me the most."
