Character Quote by Lidia Yuknavitch

As women, we have to deal with constant threats of violence. And it's in our media and fiction, too. So we internalize it.

— Marjorie Liu

Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.

— Patricia Ireland

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in…

— Gwen Moore

It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it.

— Zainab Salbi

“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

Violence against women is an everyday reality, act now, always, and forever before its too late.

— The Forgotten

If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Cinema has only been around for about 100 years. Has all of the world's violence towards women taken place only within the past 100 years?

— Richard King

We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue.

— Eve Ensler

Unfortunately, violence against women is not the only injustice women face globally; it is one of the many inequalities that impede the full development…

— Zainab Salbi

I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women.

— Eve Ensler