“ Rape is a culturally fostered means of suppressing women. Legally we say we deplore it, but mythically we romanticize and perpetuate it, and privately we excuse and overlook it. ”
- Victoria Billings- Copy
- 647
“ Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature. ”
- Camille Paglia- Copy
- 3.4K
“ A marriage license should not be viewed as a license for a husband to forcibly rape his wife with impunity. ”
- Sol Wachtler- Copy
- 738
“ I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think in essence what you're doing is you're raping yourself really. ”
- Karl Urban- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Do you think someone who is about to rape you is going to stop and think about a condom? ”
- Eli Adorno- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Rape is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear. ”
- Susan Brownmiller- Copy
- 555
“ We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
- 3K
“ We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us. One does not rape a sister. ”
- Mary Daly- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers. ”
- V. S. Pritchett- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations. ”
- Djuna Barnes- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine. ”
- Andrea Dworkin- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice. ”
- Gloria Steinem- Copy
- 1.5K
“ A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered. ”
- Andrea Dworkin- Copy
- 3K
“ Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye. ”
- L. R. Powell- Copy
- 138
“ Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership. ”
- Andrea Dworkin- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Rape is the most bankable event in our culture, more valuable than murder and a lot more valuable than mere mayhem. Jessica Lynch has no memory of being raped; Iraqi doctors at the hospital insist they found no evidence at all that she ever was. But it's in her book. ”
- Suzanne Fields- Copy
- 4K
“ I have a suggestion that I think would help fight serious crime. Signs. There are lots of signs for minor infractions: No Smoking, Stay Off the Grass, Keep Out, and they seem to work fairly well. I think we should also have signs for major crimes: Murder Strictly Prohibited, NO Raping People, Thank You for Not Kidnapping Anyone… ”
- George Carlin- Copy
- 228
“ Rape is highly reprehensible, both in a moral sense and in its almost total contempt for the personal integrity and autonomy of the female victim and for the latter's privilege of choosing those with whom intimate relations are to be established. ”
- Byron R. White- Copy
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“ I said good morning, and came on out. That afternoon when we came back, Gus here on Klondike flagged my uncle down and told him to come back there. He went back to see what he wanted and he was raising sand. Said his wife told him that I looked like I wanted to rape their daughter, somewhere in a room. ”
- Charles Phillips- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Just as he lived on his own terms, advocating for the rights of human beings, the rights of those who were forgotten or ignored, from victims of rape in Africa, to the homeless on streets worldwide, he chose to move into a more abundant life, not from a hospital bed, but from his home in Vatican City… ”
- Sheila Jackson Lee- Copy
- 3K
“ I'm in training right now for the lead role of Pete Schlong in the new adult movie Blue Peter. It's an exciting new departure for me. I hope to work on the stage, too. I've been invited to audition for the role of Demitrius in Titus Andronicus. He's one of two brothers who rape a girl and then cut her tongue out… ”
- John Leslie- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes. ”
- Marilyn French- Copy
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“ Those Romans who perpetrated the rape of the Sabines, for example, did not work themselves up for the deed by screening Debbie Does Dallas, and the monkish types who burned a million or so witches in the Middle Ages had almost certainly not come across Boobs and Buns or related periodicals. ”
- Barbara Ehrenreich- Copy
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