Babble Quote by Gore Vidal

It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit…

— Francis Bacon

“Rape is so particularly traumatic and so meaningful in so many ways, that there’s something about using the word in other contexts that diminishes…

— Sandra Brindley

“The conversation changed. The term “rape culture” started to circulate widely. It insists that a wider culture generates individual crimes and that both must…

— Rebecca Solnit

“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 crowds. It…

— Steven Pinker

“Actually, nothing hurts like hearing the word slut, unless it is hearing the word rape dropped about carelessly. Again, a word I wouldn't have…

— Christine Stockton

“The mistake we make is in thinking rape isn’t premeditated, that it happens by accident somehow, that you’re drunk and you run into a…

— Scaachi Koul

“Re-vision--the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction--is for women more than…

— Adrienne Rich

All men are rapists and that's all they are

— Marilyn French

“In spite of hopes to the contrary, pornography and mass culture are working to collapse sexuality with rape, reinforcing the patterns of male dominance…

— Susan G. Cole

“For women not to fear rape because we can successfully defend ourselves against it is not anachronistic but revolutionary. For women to be considered…

— Phyllis Chesler

All men are not rapists - but almost all rapists are men.

— Phyllis Chesler

“This trash rots the female mind! Only a man could possibly write a book where a woman falls in love with her rapist!”

— Shannon Hill