Mira Sorvino Quotes

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

I think if you're going to abuse someone, you really have to convince them of two things. First, you have to normalise what you're doing, convince them that it's not that bad. And the second thing is to convince them that they deserve it in some way.

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

Pity is just another form of abuse.

He was using me. When he cast me in Sideways I was nothing but a vessel.

The difference between rape and seduction is salesmanship.

I don't want to be a punching bag.

When you abuse someone, you limit their perspective, and you trap them in your view of them or your view of the world.

But doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?

Jim Bakker came along. He said, Jessica Hahn, listen. You're a virgin. As God as my witness. He said, We need a girl that we can trust.

I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.

The only sexual act that is sinful is the one that uses or abuses.

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

Prostitution is always a compelled choice, through either violence or destitution, and that glamorizing it as “work” trivializes the harm it does to the women in it.

If a guy can bully you, he will bully you.

The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.

A bully waits until they are in the ascendancy to pounce on people.

The only way to stop gaslighting is to shine the light of reality onto a situation. That makes it imperative for the perpetrator to keep victims in the dark.

No man wants to accept they could be getting used for money. But it's OK for them to let us know that they use us?

Many a woman has suffered at the hands of a Paul Morel. There's more than one way of being brutal.

Let's not glamorize abuse.

People always use power, that's the unsurprising thing. They use it to try to sleep with who they want to sleep with - women as well as men do that - but I don't understand violence.

I have said that gymnastics can be abusive and brutal. That was my experience. I felt trapped in a world where authority figures were dictating my future.

'Honour'-based violence is a form of domestic violence. Domestic violence is a broad category.

He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.