Anne Bronte Quotes

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

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.

When I was in high school, my thing was to get as close as humanly possible to a girl and just make her have to kiss me! You do the hug that's too close, where your mouth is close to hers and you kinda feel it out a little bit.

You can lead a heart to love, but you can't make it fall.

We cannot fight for love, as men may do; we shou'd be woo'd, and were not made to woo

Here, let's go to my dressing room, and I promise, I'll only put it in for a second.

...and Jack, who felt like he was on the cusp of being able to read minds and thought it would be all right if Luce wrote him down for that. ("I sense that you're okay with that, am I right?" He made a gun out of his fingers and clicked his tongue.)

That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy.

Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience; for it is no longer within the power of such masses to accord their inner consent to the authority to which they are subjected. Those who encourage a state of things in which the hope of gain is the principle motive take away from men their obedience, for consent which is its essence is not something which can be sold.

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

Using a fetching face to make men do as you wish is no different from a man using muscle to force a woman to his will. Both are base, and both will fail a person as they age.

You know?" he repeated. She smiled, so he kissed her. "You're not the Han Solo in this relationship, you know." "I'm totally the Han Solo," she whispered. It was good to hear her. It was good to remember it was Eleanor under all this new flesh. "Well, I'm not the Princess Leia," he said. "Don't get so hung up on gender roles," Eleanor said.” ... “You can be Han Solo," he said, kissing her throat. "And I'll be Boba Fett. I'll cross the sky for you.

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

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.

I've been sitting down studying the Art of Love. I think it will fit me like a glove.

Look. I brought you here to give you a choice-" "You didn't bring us here," said Nick. "You're here," said Bod. "I wanted you here. I came here. You followed me. Same thing.

A lot of times females are in charge because they kind of have the pussy power. If they say, "I'm you're prostitute," then they mean, "I'm the power."

Baby you should bring your best friend, then you should persuade her to let me get some sex in. Don't get offended, baby, that's just a suggestion

You can't make me love you.

... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

Art is seduction, not rape.

I've never had a good line. Well, maybe 'I must break you'.

They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that none of them led to us.

Rose, I cheat at cards and buy liquor for minors. But I would never, ever force you into something you don't want.