Without Consent Quotes

“Common law had it that conjugal rights were forever, at any time, at any place, and by any means necessary. Marital rape, then, was an impossibility, an unresolvable paradox. How can you rape someone when the law says she is permanently, and irrevocably, at your beck and call, subject to your every whim, however violent and damaging?”
― Sarah Weinman, Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime