Abuse Quote by Lundy Bancroft

“First the fact that the only items on open display seem to be tampons, breast pumps, and douches, making one feel as a female…

— Belle de Jour

“His thumb stroked over the thin wool of her gown, making promises to what was concealed. She felt his other hand at her back,…

— Meredith Duran

“I want to say to our Relief Societies, our Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Associations and our Primary Associations that I desire and sincerely hope…

— Joseph F. Smith

“She was, in fact, one of those people of exalted principles; one of those opinionated puritans, of which England produces so many; one of…

— Guy de Maupassant

“My early years, my weakling, teething, vaccination, memoirs of the various nursery maids, I dismiss unrecorded: if the Faculty desire a narrative of this…

— Le Comte Du Bouleau [Pseud Attributed

“The first thing that strikes the historian, as he surveys the written records of the Anglo-Saxons, is that they were a litigious people.”

— Daniel Hannan

“The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove, that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the flowers that…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Christian men have a long history of treating women as chattel”

— Al Stefanelli

“English is what you get from Normans trying to pick up Saxon girls.”

— Bryan Maloney

“From "Her Kind" I have found the warm caves in the woods, filled them with skillets, carvings, shelves, closets, silks, innumerable goods; fixed the…

— Anne Sexton

“In this century, as in any other, men wore the comfortable, practical stuff, and the women wandered round expiring underneath over-decorated tea-cosies and with…

— Jodi Taylor

“In either culture, women somehow managed to get the wrong end of the stick. Women bear the brunt of fending off social disorder in…

— Geraldine Brooks