Acts of violence Quote by Anonymous

And so she shuddered away from the threat of his enduring love. What did he mean? Had she not the power to daunt him?…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Vulnerability, like he had the power to hurt her or pleasure her in a way no other man could. For the first time, he…

— Maya Banks

“Psychology, she thought; that is what they called it these days, but in her view it was something much older than that. It was…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“But it seemed to him that there should be a difference in his attitude. All the distress that he had ever known, the sorrow…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Now he saw that she understood entirely too well and he felt the usual masculine indignation at the duplicity of women. Added to it…

— Margaret Mitchell

“When we police a woman's affect, when we privilege it or equate it with her actions, with what she actually does, we're engaging in…

— Toni Jensen

“The power of a woman was different, he decided: sly, fearless, changeable as the moods of the sea, but he knew instinctively that that…

— Dalene Matthee

She made people accept that women had the right to control their own destinies.

— Margaret Sanger

We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.

— Patricia Ireland

“violence doesn't stop merely by saying, 'we'll act based on love', because that can become just an idea that gets absorbed into the system.”

— David Bohm

“Through experience, he had learnt to pick up all of the unmistakable signs of vulnerability in a woman, everything that pointed to her being…

— Alice Walsh

“..She had started to understand how a woman's attention could succeed in making sense of a man's blind chaos..”

— Louise Erdrich