Gena Showalter Quotes

In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of sex; they were not coerced enough.

My own father used to boast to me of biting off a man's ear in a street fight.

He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling.

Yeah, she was hitting me hard. She was drunk and she was hitting me hard.

She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped - by me.

Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened.

I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue.

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

Violence is not funny.

Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another.

When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.

She just kept hitting me in the head with her fists, over, and over and over.

Where I'm from, they'll beat your head until it gets back down to normal size.

You know, violence, I think, knocks on everyone's door.

As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

I dished out and suffered my fair share of bloody noses.

Violence is the first refuge of the violent.

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.

I don't think I'll have to kill her. Just slap that pretty face into hamburger meat, that's all.

The use of rape or sexual intimidation as a means of punishment or retribution, whether by individuals or by groups, is unacceptable in our view.

The difference between rape and seduction is salesmanship.