Quotes About Consent

What's truly immoral is not what adults choose to do with other consenting adults but what those with great power have chosen to do to the rest of us. America's problems have nothing to do with private morality. The breakdown is in public morality—abuses of public trust that undermine the integrity of our economy and democracy

You listen to me, Annie Woods. The one word that's forbidden when we're in bed is 'no.'" She

That's the thing about women, Juilin. If one says no, there's always another will say yes.

All that is necessary to be a saint is to want to be one. Don't you believe that God will make you what He created you to be, if you will consent to let Him do it? All you have to do is desire it.

It wasn't awful to be a man's sex object if you wanted to be, if it made you feel good, if everyone was happy in the end.

It doesn't do to sacrifice for people unless they want you to.

Friends don't reprogram friends, even when they're able.

I thought about it for another minute, and then said, "Okay." "Now that's an okay that really means okay, not that okay that women use when it means everything but okay." I had to laugh then, because he was absolutely right.

I had to practice this line to use with people who come to signings and things: 'I'm sorry, I don't have sex with strangers.' --Laurell K. Hamilton, www.locusmag.com/2000/Issues/09/Hamil...

I had to practice this line to use with people who come to signings and things: 'I'm sorry, I don't have sex with strangers.' Interview at Locus magazine, 2000

Je nelegální zahrávat si s mrtvými tÄ›ly bez svolení rodiny.

Pami?taj, nikt bez twego przyzwolenia nie mo?e sprawi?, ?e poczujesz si? gorsza. To s?owa Eleanor Roosevelt. ?yj? zgodnie z tym mottem.

Aurora is right," Willa said, sounding sad to be agreeing with her.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.

Listen, smile, agree, then do whatever you were going to do anyway.

If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.

It is usual for a woman, even though she may ardently desire to give herself to a man, to feign reluctance, to simulate alarm or indignation. She must be brought to consent by urgent pleading, by lies, adjurations, and promises. I know that only professional prostitutes are accustomed to answer such an invitation with a perfectly frank assent -- prostitutes, or simple-minded, immature girls.

To approve of another man's opinions is to adopt those opinions, and to adopt them is to approve of them.

Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.

The world can ask you to participate, but it's a day-today decision if you want to agree to that proposal.

No, in the end what persuaded me was simply Ã¢â'¬Â¦ that he had asked me. My father would have made such a decision on his own and only informed my mother after the fact. That Jae-sun sought my opinion—my consent—meant more to me than I could say. And because of that, I could not gainsay him this job.

If you keep asking, eventually someone will say yes

By deafening ourselves to the emotional consequences of violence we have become confused by its relationship to sex. We have come to believe that violence equals aggression, and we have come to base our model of sexuality on our model of violence... converting an act of aggression into an act of consensual sexuality.