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Quotes About Rape

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
~ Edgar Degas
Art is vice. You don't wed it, you rape it.
~ Edgar Degas
Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
~ Edgar Degas
Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
~ Edward Abbey
Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
~ Edward Abbey
Capital punishment is an appropriate punishment for rape.
~ Kirron Kher
Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.
~ Andrea Dworkin
To date, Donald Trump has been accused of rape (including by his first wife, Ivana, who later dropped the charges), sexual assault, and sexual harassment by more than two dozen women.
~ Ronald J. Sider
I, Larry Vail, do hereby confess To murdering Merry in her little dress. To strangling and raping and making a mess. To all of these charges the answer is yes.
~ Rosalyn Drexler
1 in 3 Native women will be raped in her lifetime (and that figure is certainly higher as Native women often do not report rape); 86 percent of rapes and sexual assaults upon Native women are perpetrated by non-Native men; few are prosecuted.
~ Louise Erdrich
This book is set in 1988, but the tangle of laws that hinder prosecution of rape cases on many reservations still exists.
~ Louise Erdrich
86 percent of rapes and sexual assaults upon Native women are perpetrated by non-Native men; few are prosecuted.
~ Louise Erdrich
The separation of man from nature, man placing himself over and above it, is directly responsible for the current ecological situation which may lead to the extinction of many forms of life, including human life. Man has treated nature much as he has treated woman: with rape, plunder, violence.
~ Andrea Dworkin
pornography is the orchestrated destruction of women's bodies and souls; rape, battery, incest, and prostitution animate it; dehumanization and sadism characterize it; it is war on women, serial assaults on dignity, identity, and human worth; it is tyranny. Each woman who has survived knows from the experience of her own life that pornography is captivity—the woman trapped in the picture used on the woman trapped wherever he's got her.
~ Andrea Dworkin
Rape is no excess, no aberration, no accident, no mistake--it embodies sexuality as the the culture defines it.
~ Andrea Dworkin
The appeals judge said that pornography did all the harm we claimed--it promoted insult and injury, rape and assault, even caused women to have lower wages--and that these effects proved its power as speech; therefore, it had to be protected.
~ Andrea Dworkin
And I want one day of respite, one day off, one day in which no new bodies are piled up, one day in which no new agony is added to the old, and I am asking you to give it to me. And how could I ask you for less--it is so little. And how could you offer me less: it is so little. Even in wars, there are days of truce. Go and organize a truce. Stop your side for one day. I want a twenty-four-hour truce during which there is no rape.
~ Andrea Dworkin
The actual history of interracial rape - according to FBI statistics - is that, since the 70's, approximately 15,000 to 36,000 white women have been raped by black men every year, while, on average, zero black women are raped by black men. (The Department of Justice uses 0 to denote fewer than ten victims.
~ Ann Coulter
A sixteen-year-old girl at her homecoming dance was gang-raped and left for dead because the Democrats need more voters. We could save a lot of soul-searching about "our" violent culture if journalists didn't hide the fact that gang rapes are generally committed by people who are not from our culture.
~ Ann Coulter
Just ask the woman who told me about the gang rape of her college roommate at a fraternity party in 1972 on the University of Virginia campus. Excellent counterexample! A non-disprovable story from forty years ago.
~ Ann Coulter
If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.
~ Scott Dikkers
Missouri Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin: "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down").
~ John Brockman
I am pro-life, I believe in exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. That's my position, take it or leave it.
~ Chris Christie
When I was raped I lost my virginity and almost lost my life. I also discarded certain assumptions I had held about how the world worked and about how safe I was.
~ Alice Sebold