Abuse Quote by Alexander Chee

People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.

— Edna Ferber

They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize.

— Homer

“Was there a degenerate sex goddess lurking beneath her innocent skin?”

— Kitty French

People out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves,…

— Tori Amos

It would be easy to abuse a person when they never recognized it as abuse.

— Marissa Meyer

Maybe [Sodom and Gomorrah] isn't really about homosexuality, but about rape. If the angels had been female, and the men of Sodom said they…

— Alex Sanchez

You'll notice all around the Hindu temples couples, statues and drawings, in various erotic forms of love-making. This used to give the British a…

— Frederick Lenz

If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.

— Nigel Farage

“The anthropologist Peggy Reeves Sanday looked at data from over a hundred cultures as to the prevalence of rape, and divided them into high-…

— Derrick Jensen

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

— Robert Anton Wilson

The closeups of pornography make human genitals look like undiscovered prehistoric animals.

— Mason Cooley

Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths…

— Vladimir Nabokov