Jessica

“Our everyday exchanges are the foundation for violence. Acceptance of male control in day-to-day conversations is equivalent to acceptance of the dominant attitude the rapist exhibits. Eradicating those everyday violent exchanges destroys the foundation of support that rapists enjoy.”
― Cathy Winkler, One Night: Realities of Rape

“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.”
― Romans 1:22

“There were men who cracked their knuckles while divulging to me what they would do to the defendant if they got the chance, thinking this was somehow reassuring for me to hear. But all it did was make me realize that there wasn't so big a difference between the man who brutalized Denise and half the men I passed every day on the street.”
― Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

“Misogyny is not just hatred enacted on women, but the means of defending stories about what women are in order to entrench male dominance.”
― Victoria Smith, Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women