530 Quotes About Rape

Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death.

What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed animals, taking lesser lives to keep from killing a child

I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.

Even cruel acts such as those that were committed by the Ku Klux Klan, rapists, and the Nazis fall under the umbrella of ‘the pursuit of happiness’.

Embrace the pain

If you get through this night, you are promised to survive all the days ahead.

Have you told anyone?” asked Kara. “Your parents?” “Not yet,” said Maddy. “I wanted to finish this first. I had to.” “Yeah,” said August. “If I had something like that hanging around my gut, I’d want to get it out too. It’s like the end of the world.” “And the beginning,” said Maddy.

Poor women suffer terrible sexual violence that goes unreported. Because of their social class, these women do not have access to therapy or other methods of healing. Their repeated abuse ultimately eats away at their self-esteem, driving them to drugs, prostitution, AIDS, and in many cases, death.

The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.