“Now in my eleven years of conventional life I had learned many things and one of them is what it means to… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
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“In spite of hopes to the contrary, pornography and mass culture are working to collapse sexuality with rape, reinforcing the patterns of… — Susan G. Cole Copy Share Image
“As I faced each tragedy in my life, I learned to reach into the depth of my soul for strength and determination.… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
“Many Survivors blame themselves for the abuse and continue to feel responsible and guilty for anything bad that happens to them or… — Carolyn Ainscough Copy Share Image
“How do we find words for describing levels of betrayal and emotional, physical, sexual and spiritual torture that fragment and destroy a… — Valerie Sinason Copy Share Image
“But no one ever said yes to make sex consensual. You took hints from body language, from the way two people came… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I am not sure if we are numbed to the reality of rape, but here's the sad irony. While the word rape… — Christine Stockton Copy Share Image
“Why Is It So Important to Remember? When you were abused, those around you acted as if it weren’t happening. Since no… — Beverly Engel Copy Share Image
“…is methodical abuse, often using indoctrination, aimed at breaking the will of another human being. In a 1989 report, the Ritual Abuse… — Chrystine Oksana Copy Share Image
“In court the next morning I sat at a table in the judge’s chambers. On the other side of the table, close… — Elizabeth F. Loftus Copy Share Image
“The 21st century has certainly seen the rape of women in wartime, but it has long been treated as an atrocious war… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“In this book we paint an unprecedented portrait of Britain’s first ‘false memory’ retraction and show that, like other ‘false memory’ cases… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
“They started calling it The Rape, and it came to stand for everything: for coming together while falling apart; for loving each… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
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“It was true, I had a big mouth, and more than once I'd made things worse for myself by neglecting to shut… — Nicole Castle Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it sad that when a girl says she was sexually assaulted, our first instinct is to think she’s probably lying? Statistics… — Amy Schumer Copy Share Image
“In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. Secrecy and silence are… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“When you're asked to stay out of a bar you don't just punch the owner--you come back with your army and tear… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Ninety-six per cent of juvenile prostitutes are fugitives from abusive domestic situations; 66 per cent began working before they turned 16. (Prostitution… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“A while ago?” Anaxantis asked. “Yes, he raped me a while ago. Exactly nine months and two days ago. What's that? Nine… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
“She's scared, he thought. She's scared deaf, dumb, and blind. She thinks I'm going to rape her. I'm due to rape her,… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
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“It had gone so far that mothers in certain regions where the slave scouts were most rife, such as Eliana, disfigured their… — Maria Turtschaninoff Copy Share Image
“Silence does not mean yes. No can be thought and felt but never said. It can be screamed silently on the inside.… — Amy Reed Copy Share Image
Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
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“There's no being out too late in Whileaway, or up too early, or in the wrong part of town, or unescorted. You… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“God, who is omnipotent, could have softened Pharaoh’s heart, but he hardens it instead, which gives him a reason to afflict every… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“We lay there with our bodies touching, and as I shook, a powerful knowledge took hold. He had done this thing to… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“It is not a single crime when a child is photographed while sexually assaulted (raped.) It is a life time crime that… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
“They say rape is the practice of sexual intercourse without consent but in my case, I did consent. I knew it wasn’t… — Lunga Noélia Izata Copy Share Image
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“Not only is it true that many of the alleged cases of rape against the Negro, are like the foregoing, but the… — Ida B. Wells-Barnett 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
“Take off your damned wrapper! The old buffer ordered, looking intensely at her lower part. Comfort was on her knees, rubbing the… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“In 1996 Dorothy Mackey wrote an Op-ed piece, “Violence from comrades a fact of life for military women.” ABC News 20/ 20… — Diane Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“When a stranger on the street makes a sexual comment, he is making a private assessment of me public. And though I’ve… — Leora Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
![“Typically, [a victim of sexual assault] go home, take a shower, call their best friend, and evidence is lost. They say, "I can handle it." And they let time pass. And then, either the guy starts harassing them again or they see him do it to somebody else. Having that power on the first day is so…” quote by Kirsten Gillibrand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ec/kirsten-gillibrand-3719_assault_typically-a-victim-of-sexual-assault-go_1547426.png)
