Key quotes from Kavanaugh accuser hearing

University professor Christine Blasey Ford offered gripping testimony before the US Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday about the alleged sex assault she says she suffered at the hands of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

The following are key quotes from her remarks:

No doubt

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"100 per cent"

Blasey Ford, when asked her degree of certainty as to the identity of her attacker

'Uproarious laughter'

"Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter, the uproarious laughter between the two, and they are having fun at my expense. (...) I was underneath one of them while the two laughed."

Blasey Ford about her most stark memory about the incident in question

'Terrified'

"I am 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."

Blasey Ford, in her opening statement

'Brett groped me'

"I was pushed from behind into a bedroom across from the bathroom. I couldn't see who pushed me. Brett and Mark came into the bedroom and locked the door behind them. There was music playing in the bedroom. (...) I was pushed onto the bed and Brett got on top of me. He began running his hands over my body and grinding into me. (...) Brett groped me and tried to take off my clothes."

Blasey Ford, recounting what she says happened at a party in 1982 when she and Kavanaugh were attending private high schools in the Washington area

Fears of rape, or worse

"I believed he was going to rape me. (...) It was hard for me to breathe, and I thought that Brett was accidentally going to kill me."

-- Blasey Ford, describing the alleged sexual assault

Long term

"Brett's assault on me drastically altered my life for a very long time."

Blasey Ford, explaining how the alleged attack has affected her

Reality bites

"My greatest fears have been realized and the reality has been far worse than what I expected."

Blasey Ford, on the effect her claims have had on her life