Quote by Jon Krakauer

“Why must we be taught to be fearful of the outside world? Why were my male classmates not being taught not to rape women…

— Thavry Thon

“...human beings have a distorted view of risk. They don't see the whole picture. Our perceptions are twisted by stories in the media, by…

— Ruth Dugdall

Those most likely to be raped or sexually assaulted are young women between the ages of 16 and 24, women with their whole lives…

— Rosa DeLauro

“a raped girl is bad for the family: it shows that they can’t protect their women; that they have little social standing; and that…

— Louise Brown

“Women are afraid of being raped and murdered all the time and sometimes that’s more important to talk about than protecting male comfort levels.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“With murder, the victim is gone, and not forced to deal with what happened to her. The family must deal with it, but not…

— John Grisham

“We fought to hide our fear, to maintain our positions as predators rather than victims. In reality, we were all victims.”

— Dwight E. Abbott

“When an individual is raped in this country, more than 90 percent of the time the rapist gets away with the crime. —”

— Jon Krakauer

“In late twentieth-century America, this "jurisprudence of lawlessness" is a bit out of (fate. While there is a vigorous victim-rights movement in our nation''…

— Richard Maxwell Brown

“Bizarre though it is, people seem more inclined to rally around and identify with the victimizer than with the person who has suffered an…

— Natalie Shainess

“We have far more than eighty-seven thousand rapes in this country every year, but each of them is invariably portrayed as an isolated incident.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“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