For the record, I don’t have to like my clients or what they have done.
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Quotes tagged ‘Rape’
I conquered people and my own mind.
Even when we’re unwanted, harassment still finds us.
Fashion makes hypocrites of us all at one point or another.
We are fighting for a world where girls don’t get dragged into dark rooms and have their innocence torn from them. But that world comes at a price.
— Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Michael Jones-Morales, The Widow, Emily Beecham, imdb.com
As Felitti spoke to the 183 people in the program, he found 55 percent had been sexually abused. One woman said she put on weight after she was raped because 'overweight is overlooked, and that’s the way I need to be.' It turned out many of these women had been making themselves obese for an unconsc…
I was so young when it started. My father would come into my room at night and do things. Sometimes I felt like I was in a dream, watching him do it to a stranger, or a corpse. I finally got the courage to tell my stepmother. She gave me candy to keep quiet.
— Jessica Sharzer, Grace Bertrand, Lizzie Brocheré, imdb.com
Tony Robbins is so in the wrong here with his overt physical intimidation & verbal bullying tactics. The MeToo movement isn't trying to "get significance," it's pursuing justice & cultural change. MeToo isn't "attacking" someone else, it's holding perpetrators accountable.
I didn't commit a crime. I didn't rape anybody. I didn't assault anybody. I didn't get a DUI. I mean, my God, there are celebrities that fucking kill people.
Not only did you physically rape me, but you violated every cell in my body and every thought in my goddamn head.
Hotchner: [after Lisa Blake's rape] Excuse me, how bad were her injuries? CSU Tech: She's lucky, they're relatively minor. Hotchner: Do me a favor? Don't tell her that she's lucky.
At the age of 13, I was raped for the first time and then shortly after, the blame was placed on me for a hit list and bomb threat that took place at my middle school right after Columbine. So, I went away into the system from the age of 13 to the age of 18, where I struggled with more self-injury a…
Growing up for me I experienced some great pain, from abuse, to rape, to even the loss of my own father to suicide. Not only did I already struggle with my own mental illness, but to have these experiences it further my depression to thoughts and attempts of suicide.
Gemma: Clay's never gonna...want to be inside something that's been ripped up like me. Tara: Jesus Christ, Gemma, Clay loves you. Gemma: Love don't mean shit. Men need to own their pussy. His has been violated. He'll find another. It's what they do.
— Kurt Sutter, Jack LoGiudice, Gemma Teller Morrow, Katey Sagal, imdb.com
One woman said she put on weight after she was raped because “overweight is overlooked, and that’s the way I need to be.” It turned out many of these women had been making themselves obese for an unconscious reason: to protect themselves from the attention of men, who they believed would hurt them.
God impregnated a woman without her consent. Isn’t that kind of worse than rape?
The patriarchal power structure might sometimes be hamhanded in enforcing its oppressive norms, but often it’s tricky. It hangs back amid an organic feminist boom and then disguises itself amid the earnest supporters, using their revolutionary vocabulary to argue for the status quo. It sows division…
The backlash has decided it’s here, but that doesn’t mean we have to let it crush us. It’s not the ’90s anymore.
Find a woman who will sell out solidarity for a pat on the head and a cookie from the establishment, and use her identity as a dodge for claims of overt misogyny. If you’re really successful, this tactic will bear fruit for generations, as the precocious Katie Roiphes of yesteryear become the season…
But where Jones frames this as a clash between feminist factions ― 'One group of feminists will try to define sexual assault and another group will call them alarmists' ― it appears rather to be a modern elaboration of an age-old antifeminist tactic: Make it clear that you’ll give top dollar and top…