Minutes Quote by Patricia Ireland

Every three minutes a woman is being raped. Every eighteen seconds a woman is being beaten. There is nothing abstract about it. It is…

— Andrea Dworkin

Meanwhile, every eighteen seconds a man beats a woman, every three minutes a man rapes a woman, and every day two men will murder…

— Lierre Keith

Women are raped and coerced into sex.

— Catharine MacKinnon

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

— Jon Krakauer

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

“1 in 4 women will be raped in their lifefime, less than 10% will report the assault, and less than 5% of the rapists will go to jail.”

— Janet Bode

Rape is a more heinous crime than murder since the rape victim dies throughout the period she lives.

— Amit Abraham

Ninety percent of the time when you see rape on the television it is gratuitous and there to either bolster viewing figures or as…

— Douglas Henshall

Every 6 seconds somewhere a woman is sexually unfulfilled. Every 5 seconds somewhere a man knows it too.

— Green Monk

Women do not get raped because they weren’t careful enough. Women get raped because someone raped them.

— Jessica Valenti

“Often, to keep the family together, the woman will accept repeated beatings and rapes, emotional battering and verbal degredation; she will be debased and…

— Andrea Dworkin

Woman was and is condemned to a system under which the lawful rapes exceed the unlawful ones a million to one.

— Margaret Sanger