logo

Quotes About Rape

I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.
~ Julia Quinn
On the train: staring hypnotized at the blackness outside the window, feeling the incomparable rhythmic language of the wheels, clacking out nursery rhymes, summing up moments of the mind like the chant of a broken record: god is dead, god is dead. going, going, going. and the pure bliss of this, the erotic rocking of the coach. France splits open like a ripe fig in the mind; we are raping the land, we are not stopping.
~ Sylvia Plath
What is more wonderful than to be a virgin, clean and sound and young, on such a night? ... (being raped.)
~ Sylvia Plath
As of this writing, twenty-six women have accused Trump of sexual misconduct, including rape, since the 1970s. The allegations didn't stifle his growing presence.
~ Julian E. Zelizer
It's so lovely that even in prison, men who aren't touchy-feely have to be stopped from beating up rapists -- not just child molesters, but rapists of grown women. It's a shame that educated middle-class leftwing men can't take feminism on board so effectively.
~ Julie Burchill
Altogether it is reckoned that around 1.9 million German women were raped by Soviet soldiers in the final months of the war and those immediately following the peace.12
~ Frederick Taylor
We constantly encounter themes that arouse sexual desire, often coupled with themes of violence. If our collective consciousness is filled with violent sexual seeds, why should we be surprised when there is sexual abuse of children, rape, and other violent acts?
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Make no mistake, Ms. Lane, I didn't rape you. You can lie there on your pretty little P.C. ass and claim with your idealistic little P.C. arguments that any violation of your will is rape and that I'm a big, bad bastard, and I'll tell you that you're full of shit, and you've obviously never been raped. Rape is much, much worse. Rape isn't something you walk away from. You crawl.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Next to the sale of their children or spouse, rape was perhaps the worst nightmare of slavery. We have no way of knowing how often it happened... We do know that white women were haunted by the fear that their husbands, fathers, or sons were having sex with their slaves. And we know that black mothers nervously watched their daughters to protect them from dangers they could not understand.
~ Gail Collins
But that is only 'natural evil,'" he waxed eloquently. "What of personal evil?" Now his words took on the calculated righteous indignation of a politician. "What kind of god would allow the heinous evils of rape, murder, genocide, and war?" Uriel snorted at the irony. At this very moment, the Accuser's ally Inanna was leading a horde of thirty thousand unholy demigods on Eden. They were planning massive rape, murder, genocide, and war.
~ Brian Godawa
They would owe most of their success to a curious rape mania that rides on the shoulder of American journalism like some jeering, masturbating raven. Nothing grabs an editor's eye like a good rape.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
The streets of every city are thronged with men who would pay all the money they could get their hands on to be transformed - even for a day - into hairy, hard-fisted brutes who walk over cops, extort free drinks from terrified bartenders and then thunder out of town on big motorcycles after raping the banker's daughter.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped - by me.
~ Ian Fleming
And now he knew that … the conquest of her body, because of the central privacy in her, would have the sweet tang of rape.
~ Ian Fleming
but that the conquest of her body, because of the central privacy in her, would each time have the sweet tang of rape.
~ Ian Fleming
I know it may come as a shock, but it's sort of considered polite to wait for the consent of the woman. In fact, I'm pretty sure that if you don't wait, you may have to deal with pesky criminal charges like kidnapping and rape.
~ Ilona Andrews
There were enough thugs in the world – and those thugs could well be wearing the raiment of a noble, or a Fist, or indeed a priest's robes or a scholar's vestments – enough of them, without question, who lusted for chaos and the opportunities it provided. For senseless cruelty, for the unleashing of hatred, for killing and rape. Any excuse would suffice, or even none at all.
~ Steven Erikson
Grief rapes the mind, and I know all about rape.
~ Steven Erikson
To remember rape is to fold details into sensation, and so relive each time its terrible truth. He told you this could become habit, an addiction, until even despair became a welcome taste on your tongue. Understand, then - as only you can here - that to take one's own life is the final expression of despair. You saw that. Buruk the Pale. You felt that, at the sea's edge.
~ Steven Erikson
Nearly all of the stories [in The Heptameron ] are about the sexual relations between men and women, with a large percentage dealing with the unromanic side: with rape, infidelity, the seduction of nuns and wives by monks (everyone in the Renaissance seems to have despised monks), loveless marriages, incest, and borderline necrophilia.
~ Steven Moore
It's an intrusion, isn't it, that presence in your head. Continual mental rape.
~ Storm Constantine
Rape is] nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear.
~ Susan Brownmiller
All rape is an exercise in power (..). Rapists may operate within an emotional setting or within a dependent relationship that provides a hierarchical, authoritarian structure of its own that weakens a victim's resistance, distorts her perspective and confounds her will.
~ Susan Brownmiller
In one year, 1975, thirty states overhauled their rape laws to make them more equitable to victims. Between 1970, when the feminist movement first started to talk about rape, and 1979, when the militance had receded, every state in the union went through a serious reevaluation of its rape codes and made significant adjustments.
~ Susan Brownmiller