Affluent Quote by Lynn Woolsey

In rural areas of America, there is a growing increase in poverty, homelessness and hunger. You cannot separate these factors from domestic violence ?-…

— Blanche Lincoln

Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place…

— Gloria Steinem

We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available.

— Ethel Waters

We're number one in domestic violence homicides. We also have a high rate of alcohol abuse and drug abuse and there's a high lethality…

— Diane Birch

I grew up on the brink of poverty in Baltimore and the Bronx during the '80s and '90s. I remember those streets you couldn't…

— Wes Moore

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

— Jack Monroe

I am delighted to be part of this Women's Aid campaign - the statistics are frightening. I've spent time with the victims of these…

— Gethin Jones

As I go across the country and privately visit women's shelters and counselling centres, I am appalled that the most vulnerable people in our…

— Adrienne Clarkson

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

— Patricia Ireland

While I didn't grow up in a family where there was domestic violence I knew of families in my neighbourhood where abuse was happening.…

— Huey Morgan

I want to deal with the homeless situation here in Washington, D.C. I think it is a travesty that we've got men - and…

— Barack Obama

From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.

— Zainab Salbi