Invisible Women & Girls
Female Abusers & Sexual Offenders
by Kelly Lee Dale Armstrong
"[Karla] Homolka didn't need a man to turn her bad. None of us does (sic.)"
Christie Blatchford, National Post, November 6, 1999
"We cannot insist on the strength and competence of women in all the traditional masculine areas yet continue to exonerate ourselves from the consequence of power by arguing that, where the course of it runs more darkly, we are actually powerless."
Patricia Pearson. 1997
"...presenting women as always kind and trustworthy...such a romantic view of women is not only inaccurate but also harmful to all of us in general, and especially to victims of female abuse who know otherwise but whose painful knowledge is rarely validated."
Dr. Kathleen Storrie, 1998    
I have to recant, give up the old belief that I am powerless and because of it nothing I can do will ever hurt anyone."
Margaret Atwood, Surfacing
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