Quotes About Consent

If I know you, and you want to touch my hair, you should ask me first, and most of the time I'll say yes. But if I don't know you, and you just reach out and touch me without asking or touch while simultaneously asking, I'm going to give you a side eye.

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?

Love can't be stolen without willing participants.

Joanna nodded in agreement, not resisting, not putting up a fight of any kind.

Until 1604 the age of consent was twelve for a girl, fourteen for a boy.

The country accepted it not only willingly, but almost absent-mindedly.

I would if somebody would want to but of course nobody would want to so I wouldn't want to force anybody to want to.

the relationship that Jane Goodall has with the chimpanzees of Gombe—and that Dian Fossey had with the mountain gorillas she studied, and Biruté Galdikas has with the wild orangutans of Tanjung Puting—is different. There is a trust between human and animal, a privileged trust unlike any other. The contract for that trust is not written by the human: the animals are the authors of the agreement. The relationship is on the animals' terms.

It never occurred to me to say no

Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.

They know and do not know, that acting is suffering And suffering is action. Neither does the actor suffer Nor the patient act. But both are fixed To an eternal action, an eternal patience To which all must consent that it may be willed And which all must suffer that they may will it, That the pattern may subsist, for the pattern is the action And the suffering, that the wheel may turn and still Be forever still.

Ich weiß nicht woher du die Idee hattest, dass man aus Höflichkeit mit jeder schlafen muss, die einen darum bittet.

No can always be changed to yes, but it's very hard to change yes to no.

I would never hurt you," she said. "I can keep you safe, but to do so, I need your permission. Let me protect you.

I am rather disturbed by the fact that so many people—who are neither medical professionals nor trans themselves—would want to hear all of the gory details regarding transsexual physical transformations, or would feel that they have any right to ask us about the state of our genitals.

Kindly and firmly, she refused to sleep with me. Not even a charity fuck.

I don't fall out with people easily but several female friends I have had to cut loose because they would press their unwanted sexual attentions on me when they were drunk, and, as I've said, I fancy women very rarely and when I do, they're in their 20s. It's so sucky being a feminist Hugh Hefner.

Familiarity is soporific,' writes physicist B. K. Ridley. 'It breeds consent to whatever models we're used to.

President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.

Let's be clear: no one is forced into hazing. If you don't want to be hazed, don't join a fraternity.

We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.

Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.

Boundaries—You respect my boundaries, and when you're not clear about what's okay and not okay, you ask. You're willing to say no.