Violence against women Quotes

Violence against women is not inevitable.

— Caroline Lucas

Violence against women is as American as apple pie.

— Gwen Moore

“Guns make small men feel big.”

— Oliver Gaspirtz

“Women ain't hood ornament.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Violence against women is fundamentally about power.

— Antonio Guterres

Violence against women is always wrong.

— Guy Sebastian

“Men protect women from those like them.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

I smacked her, cracked her, put her in a full nelson.

— Redman

Gender-based violence is one of the most pervasive and yet least-recognized human rights abuses in the world.

— Anonymous

Violence against women and girls is one of the most systematic and widespread human rights violations.

— Anonymous

The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem.

— Gloria Steinem

“WE KNOW YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY DARKNESS... IN THE TERROR FOREST! WE HOPE FOR MOONLIGHT!”

— Widad Akrawi

“I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND REMIND EVERYONE... OF THE FATE... OF THE ENSLAVED... YAZIDI WOMEN”

— Widad Akrawi

“I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND BEG EVERYONE... TO HELP RESCUE ALL IMPRISONED WOMEN.”

— Widad Akrawi

“I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND BEG EVERYONE... TO BE A HERO... AND SAVE THE YAZIDI NATION”

— Widad Akrawi

There is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women.

— Lee Maracle

“IT’S ALL CLEAR ISIS INVADES YOUR SPHERE YET NO ONE IMAGINES YOUR FEAR BUT DON'T WORRY TAUSSI MELEK IS HERE RESTORING LIVES…

— Widad Akrawi

“We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this Earth, though it’s almost never treated…

— Rebecca Solnit

The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture.…

— Gloria Steinem

I call on men and boys everywhere to join us. Violence against women and girls will not be eradicated until all of…

— Ban Ki-moon

When domestic violence was often a dark secret, Dad wrote the Violence Against Women Act, which gave countless women support, protection and…

— Beau Biden

I represent an affluent district, but when I worked to form my county's first battered-women's shelter, some nights there were no beds…

— Lynn Woolsey

As legislators and as Members of Congress, it is our obligation to speak up for those who are being ignored in our…

— Gwen Moore

All my politics and campaigning has been around issues that affect women: violence against women, welfare cuts to women.

— Jack Monroe

As a prosecutor and a senator, one of my main criminal justice priorities has been enforcing and reauthorizing the Violence Against Women…

— Amy Klobuchar

Nobody believes that domestic violence kills and nobody believes it is detrimental to children. This world has got to wake up. To…

— Denise Scott Brown

“Yes, we love the good men in our lives and sometimes, oftentimes, the bad ones too- but that we're not in full…

— Jessica Valenti

It is an honor to be with thousands of leaders from around the world who are united in their mission to eradicate…

— Andrea Jung

Domestic violence refers to acts of violence (physical, sexual, emotional and psychological) that occur between people who have, or have had, an…

— Anonymous

I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In…

— Patricia Ireland

The violence perpetrated by men against women must stop - and it's up to men to stop it. It is up to…

— Anonymous

Violence against women and lack of intervention and man's inhumanity to man and this kind of atrocities are going on. These are…

— Angelina Jolie

“The manner Women are bred in, (...) they are admitted to no share of the exercises which wou'd qualify them to attack…

— Lady Sophia Fermor

“As a journalist in Providence, I was particularly drawn toward stories about women's issues: I wrote about discrimination, abortion, violence against women.…

— Caroline Knapp

“Consider, for example, how the following verse (4:34) regarding the obligations of men toward women has been rendered into English by two…

— Reza Aslan

“Online threats of violence seem to have a very simple purpose: they are intended to act as a reminder to women that…

— Bailey Poland

“This moment would define my memory of that night, and of the many nights like it, for a decade. In it I…

— Tara Westover

“My Lesbian history tells me that the vice squad is never our friend even when it is called in by women; that…

— Joan Nestle

Maybe I'm a bad feminist, but I am deeply committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. I have strong opinions…

— Roxane Gay

“Acknowledging that a woman's right to be safe from a gender-based attack was a "civil right," I believed, was critically important in…

— Joe Biden