Acts of violence Quote by Rosa DeLauro

“There is a cultural disconnect here. Society struggles to see women as perpetrators of sexual violence. We’re taught to believe women can’t be that…

— Carlos Wallace

“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

Women are raped and coerced into sex.

— Catharine MacKinnon

“Studies conducted in a city in Zimbabwe found that half of reported rape cases involve girls less than 15 years of age and that…

— Njovana Watts

“a raped girl is bad for the family: it shows that they can’t protect their women; that they have little social standing; and that…

— Louise Brown

“When I tell someone that the most important thing a young woman can do to avoid being raped is to avoid places with lots…

— Rory Miller

There are many women in their late teens and early twenties who have either experienced violence in a relationship or have witnessed it at…

— Miquita Oliver

“According to many peer-reviewed studies, a large percentage of the victims of non-stranger rapes “actually feared they were going to be killed,” even when…

— Jon Krakauer

Women of all ages in countries around the world are raped at all different times of day, in different circumstances, wearing all different kinds…

— Laura Bates

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

— Jessica Valenti

“What a rapist takes from a woman is her future. The person she is going to become, who she is supposed to be, is…

— Karin Slaughter

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