Acts of heroism Quote by Lidia Yuknavitch

Defining men as the perpetrators of all violence is a viciously immoral judgment of an entire gender. And defining women as inherently nonviolent condemns…

— Katherine Dunn

...In every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.

— Andrea Dworkin

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

— Andrea Dworkin

Men view life to be as precious as women do, and to say that men have a more violent nature is insulting to men.

— Tammy Duckworth

I've never seen a world where only men were responsible for the violence, and the women were innocent. They go together. Men and women…

— Claire Denis

Our media provides a continuing message that for men, heroism is defined through association with control, independence, and the ability to commit violence, from…

— Deeyah Khan

The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who…

— Edmund Leach

“In a world dominated by violent and passive-aggressive men, and by male institutions dispensing violence, it is extraordinary to note how often women are…

— Adrienne Rich

Society definitely encourages and condones men's violence toward women. Not as much as it used to be when it was less visible, and there…

— Gloria Steinem

The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage…

— Bell Hooks

By all measures men are the more violent gender.

— Steven Pinker

But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus.…

— Julie Taymor