“It hadn't been much of a rape, really.”

— Robert Cormier , book Beyond the Chocolate War

Source: Beyond the Chocolate War (1985), p. 89

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Robert Cormier 50

American author, columnist and reporter 1925–2000

Walter M. Miller, Jr. book A Canticle for Leibowitz

Ch 26
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), Fiat Voluntas Tua
Context: The abbot snapped off the set. "Where’s the truth”? he asked quietly. “What’s to be believed? Or does it matter at all? When mass murder’s been answered with mass murder, rape with rape, hate with hate, there’s no longer much meaning in asking whose ax is the bloodier. Evil, on evil, piled on evil. Was there any justification in our ‘police action’ in space? How can we know? Certainly there was no justification for what they did — or was there? We only know what that thing says, and that thing is a captive. The Asian radio has to say what will least displease its government; ours has to say what will least displease our fine patriotic opinionated rabble, which is what, coincidentally, the government wants it to say anyhow, so where’s the difference?"

“Trigger Warning!
Rape is a rape is a rape.”

Sheri-D Wilson (1958) Canadian Spoken Word Poet

"Exhibit G - Hidden in Plain Sight"
Open Letter: Woman Against Violence Against Women (2014)

“Here's what I thought: they raped her, they lined up. I was angry because of the rape, yes, but she was so beautiful, and the mayor should have been first. What a waste.”

Rodrigo Duterte (1945) Filipino politician and the 16th President of the Philippines

Original: (tl) Ang pumasok sa isip ko, ni-rape nila, pinagpilahan nila. Nagalit ako kasi ni-rape, oo, isa rin iyun. Pero napakaganda, dapat ang mayor muna ang mauna. Sayang.

Duterte on Australian rape victim: Napakaganda. Dapat ang mayor ang mauna. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr-XRWT40Do&t=38 (April 16, 2016)

“I know it wasn't rape-rape. I think it was something else, but I don't believe it was rape-rape.”

Whoopi Goldberg (1955) American actress

In defense of Roman Polansky, as quoted in "Roman Polanski: backlash as Whoopi Goldberg says director didn't commit 'rape-rape'" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/roman-polanski/6245219/Roman-Polanski-backlash-as-Whoopi-Goldberg-says-director-didnt-commit-rape-rape.html, The Telegraph, Nick Allen, 30 Sep, 2009.

“He does not seem to have understood the gravity of the offence. India's elite lauded the amendments to the IPC, widening the definition of rape, little realizing that they did not apply simply to lower-class men, but could affect them too. While there has been much clamour for the death penalty in cases of rape involving the lower classes, would the elite now like to apply this to themselves?”

Flavia Agnes (1947) Indian activist and lawyer

On Tarun Tejpal's rape accusation and the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013, as quoted in " Tejpal's email apology strong documentary evidence http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Tejpals-email-apology-strong-documentary-evidence/articleshow/26224417.cms" The Times of India (23 November 2013)