Abuse Quote by Mary Pipher

“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

“Rape Culture is a culture where we are inundated, in different ways, by the idea that male aggression and violence towards women is acceptable…

— Roxane Gay

“It is a myth that rape is an inevitable part of conflict . . . There is nothing inevitable about it. It is a…

— Angelina Jolie

“When rape is inevitable, lie back and enjoy it.”

— Lawrence Block

“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

“No one asks to be raped,’ he says. ‘It’s just a myth. A lie.”

— Elle Harper

“But I want to leave Denison there, with a boy, because making change has to include them as well. It’s no longer enough simply…

— Peggy Orenstein

“Not all men rape. Some molest and others observe!”

— Abhishek Leela Pandey

“Rape culture is a funny thing. People gloss over some pretty shitty, creepy, wrong behavior, little brother, when they know the person in question.…

— wildbow

“The fact is, rape is utterly commonplace in all our cultures. It is part of the fabric of everyday life, yet we all act…

— Desmond Tutu

“When women act on behalf of our own sexual desires, we get blamed for being raped, for the demise of modern masculinity, for men’s…

— Jaclyn Friedman

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

— none