Sister in Law Quotes

“It was ironic, I thought, that the Sun should be relying on the Human Rights Act to bolster their argument when they had led public campaigns calling for its repeal.”
― Harriet Wistrich, Sister in Law: Shocking True Stories of Fighting for Justice in a Legal System Designed by Men

“The highly inflammatory rhetoric used by some in government to discuss the issue has played into media coverage of the number of asylum-seekers crossing the Channel in small boats that has bordered on the hysterical. The number of desperate people reaching the UK by this dangerous route has certainly rocketed, but it is still relatively tiny compared with the overall increase in the net migration figure.”
― Harriet Wistrich, Sister in Law: Shocking True Stories of Fighting for Justice in a Legal System Designed by Men

“A setting like Yarl’s Wood, where half the staff were male, and in a position of power over an overwhelmingly female population, was ripe for exploitation. The so-called ‘relaxed environment’ led some male officers to take advantage of young and often extremely vulnerable detainees. To what extent is hard to know because abuse was so under-reported.”
― Harriet Wistrich, Sister in Law: Shocking True Stories of Fighting for Justice in a Legal System Designed by Men

“So many male perpetrators of violence were successfully claiming that ‘she provoked me because she wouldn’t shut up’ or ‘she was having an affair’ that we dubbed it the ‘nagging and shagging’ defence.”
― Harriet Wistrich, Sister in Law: Shocking True Stories of Fighting for Justice in a Legal System Designed by Men