Quotes from Amanda Knox

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.

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

If I'm guilty, I'm the ultimate figure to fear, because I'm not the obvious one. But, on the other hand, if I'm innocent, it means that everyone is vulnerable, and that is everyone's nightmare. Either I'm a psychopath in sheep's clothing, or I am you.

The best thing #MeToo did was say women's experiences matter. You can't blame us for what happens to us anymore.

Even if Trump means well, his schemes tend to be blunt, selfish, and short-sighted rather than nuanced, empathetic, and thought through.

I'm very anti-antidepressants. It's not the chemicals of my brain that's a problem; it's reality. I don't think tricking my brain into reinterpreting reality is going to help.

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.

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

I didn't confess. I was interrogated. They acted like my answers were wrong. They told me I was wrong, that I didn't remember correctly, that I had to remember correctly. And if I didn't, I would never see my family.

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.

The only thing I can do is continue to defend myself.

After my conviction, I was devastated. I had never believed that I would be convicted.

It's one thing to be called certain things in the media, and then it's another thing to be sitting in a courtroom, fighting for your life while people are calling you a devil.

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

People can take, take, take from you. There are people whose profession is to do that. It's entertainment at the cost of human lives.

Now I have normal-person fears - fears of failure, of not being smart enough or strong enough or kind enough.

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

I am a marked person, and no one who's unmarked is going to understand that. It's very intimidating. I don't even know what my place is anymore. What's my role in society? Who am I, after everybody has branded me?

I always carry a book with me to read on the bus, and I tend to arrive everywhere early.

I'm definitely not going back to Italy willingly. They'll have to catch me and pull me back kicking and screaming into a prison that I don't deserve to be in.

The only thing I rely on is caffeine.

One of the things that I somewhat realized, especially right after I was convicted, was that sometimes really, really horrible things happen for no reason.

No one knows how they would react to a horrible situation until it happens to them.

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.