“The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“An engaging examination of a painful subject, with a focus on healing and forgiveness. - Kirkus Review” — Robert Uttaro Copy Share Image
“Because that was something else Brennan hadn’t done since the day of the rape. He hadn’t cried. Not once. Not one single… — Sloane Kennedy Copy Share Image
“What a rapist takes from a woman is her future. The person she is going to become, who she is supposed to… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
But over 20 years ago I was a victim of rape. And thank god it didn't result in a pregnancy. Because I… — Gretchen Whitmer Copy Share Image
“Any rapist would feel pretty dang upset to see his car packed full with rotting fish heads and limburger cheese...Also, if the… — Inga Muscio Copy Share Image
“Laws must be efficaciously deterrent in nature, and in grave offences where offenders trespass the precincts of being a human, and commit… — Henrietta Newton Martin Copy Share Image
“Everyday in heat, rain or cold, I ran - alone in the woods - in the hills near our home. There I… — Nikki Rosen Copy Share Image
Over half a million women are raped in this country every year, and only a fraction of them report it because they're… — Mariska Hargitay Copy Share Image
“Doctors in 1945 would report that one of Berlin's children's favorite games was 'rape.' When they saw a man in uniform--even a… — Andrei Cherny Copy Share Image
Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
“Secret ceremonies in which malevolent men and women cloaked in hooded robes, hiding behind painted faces and chanting demonic incantations while inflicting… — Judy Byington Copy Share Image
“The town was more than ready to accept the window dressing that hid the ugly truth of Joe's guilt. Some shared the… — Judith Spencer Copy Share Image
“Two other highly vocal FMSF Advisory Board members are Dr Elizabeth Loftus and Professor Richard Ofshe. Loftus is a respected academic psychologist… — Valerie Sinason Copy Share Image
“Some abusers organise themselves in groups to abuse children and other adults in a more formally ritualised way. Men and women in… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“I am not depressed; my life is just shit. As a consequence of my not being depressed, I am not like them.… — Tom Conrad Copy Share Image
“Another preoccupation fed into this dynamic relationship between discovery and denial: does sexual abuse actually matter? Should it, in fact, be allowed?… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
“I was fucked and I knew it. I had stupidly wandered into some epic rape palace run by meth-addicted hobos and bald… — Karina Halle Copy Share Image
“And there’s one other matter I must raise. The epidemic of domestic sexual violence that lacerates the soul of South Africa is… — Stephen Lewis Copy Share Image
“She was flustered; he could see it in the way she kept twisting her fingers together. Did she think he was going… — Linda Howard Copy Share Image
“I’m taking this, Beckett. I did this. I could have just disabled them. But when I heard her say no I just…”… — Debra Anastasia Copy Share Image
“No. I made that choice. I let all that anger and pain get twisted up in my thoughts for you.” He leaned… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“And he had begun to feel then what he was feeling now: the complex and awful mental and physical interaction that is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Studies conducted in a city in Zimbabwe found that half of reported rape cases involve girls less than 15 years of age… — Njovana Watts Copy Share Image
“But I don’t believe that this endemic problem is solvable by polite conversations and structured lessons because that feeds into the myth… — 404 Ink Copy Share Image
“Here, from her ashes you lay. A broken girl so lost in despondency that you know that even if she does find… — Amanda Steele Copy Share Image
“It is a myth that rape is an inevitable part of conflict . . . There is nothing inevitable about it. It… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“Each night I am nailed into place and forget who I am. Daddy? That's another kind of prison. It's not the prince… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“Raped at age nine by a relative and pregnant at 14 Oprah Winfrey, like many others have experienced the wickedness and brutality… — Oche Otorkpa Copy Share Image
These days sexual assault & rape is sadly common and people joke about it like its nothing… it's not funny. I struggled… — Jade Surette Copy Share Image
“I'm not having sex with you. Not willingly. If you starve me, strangle me, whip me or tie me to the bed,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Rape victims were the people who evoked the most sadness in Bosch. He knew he wouldn’t be able to last a month… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We mute the realization of malevolence- which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into victims themselves and by describing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I believe that the rape-is-not-about-sex doctrine will go down in history as an example of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Now, should we treat women as independent agents, responsible for themselves? Of course. But being responsible has nothing to do with being… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
“Despite its popularity amongst critical criminologists, the empirical basis of the moral panic account of sexual abuse has been shown to be… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
I was offered one of the roles in a big project that shall remain nameless. I thought the whole thing encouraged violent… — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
“...a husband cannot be guilty of the rape of his wife because the wife hath given up herself in this kind to… — S. A. David Copy Share Image
“My goal in going public was not to put my extended family to shame, or to get back at Brian for abusing… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
“But people like the doll guy who sells women and the dog guy who buys women, and other guys who, say, rape… — Taylor Stevens Copy Share Image
