Communication Quote by Rebecca Solnit

“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

“Rape culture is a concept of unknown origin and of uncertain definition; yet it has made its way into everyday vocabulary and is assumed…

— Joyce E Williams

“Rape culture is 1 in 6 women being sexually assaulted in their lifetimes. Rape culture is not even talking about the reality that many…

— Melissa McEwan

“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

“Actually, nothing hurts like hearing the word slut, unless it is hearing the word rape dropped about carelessly. Again, a word I wouldn't have…

— Christine Stockton

“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

“We see a major trade in women, we see the torture of women as a form of entertainment, and we see women also suffering…

— Andrea Dworkin

“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

“As the incidence and fear of rape on college campuses have increased, the term rape has been generalized to mean 'misuse; diminish the effects…

— Connie C. Eble

I mean, just because you weren't raped doesn't mean that rape culture doesn't exist or that rapes don't happen.

— Jwala Gutta

“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

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

— Angelina Jolie