Bill Carpenter Quotes

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

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.

I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical.

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

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.

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.

You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with.

I have read your proposed speech. Your argument is like that of the man who is accused of seduction and defends himself by explaining that he has committed rape.

Woman's flirtatious arts of self-concealment mean man's approach must take the form of rape.

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.

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.

My sister's a bully.

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

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

Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can't. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn't want to fight somebody.

Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.

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.

Pity is just another form of abuse.

Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects.

Publishing companies are like schoolyard bullies that can't even fight well.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

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

A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable.