Children Quote by Maggie Nelson

“For it’s particularly when women speak up about sexual crimes that their right and capacity to speak come under attack. It seems almost reflexive…

— Rebecca Solnit

“You just told those people that I'm a sexual deviant," he said through clenched teeth. "And apparently, one with the intelligence of a ten-year-old.…

— Julie James

“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

“Opinions about sexuality, is the main evidence of the presence of wrong knowledge about sexuality.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“These are not stories about girls getting what they want sexually, they are stories about girls gaining acclaim socially, for which their sexuality is…

— Ariel Levy

“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

“greater sexual freedom expands the grey area between consensual sex and rape”

— none

We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all,…

— Sigmund Freud

“Gender and sexual behaviour [are] things that are neither individually intended nor biologically determined, but culturally embedded; pressured […] before birth, a child is…

— Philomena Essed

“I want to emphasize that rape is about human beings, not statistics.”

— Janet Bode

“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

“We can hope to grasp the significance of sexuality only by studying it in its concrete manifestations; and then perhaps the meaning of the…

— Simone de Beauvoir