Beats Quote by Pam Grier

Women are not just victims; they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability.

— Zainab Salbi

I have always believed that women are not victims, we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace…

— Hillary Clinton

The Great Truth is that women in our society constitute one of the most privileged and powerful classes of human beings on earth. The…

— Wendy McElroy

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

“What had this woman and the other victims done which could merit such violence being done to them?”

— Mark Sennen

I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.

— Jodie Foster

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

“Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.”

— Gloria Steinem

Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.

— Anonymous

In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage…

— Isabel Allende

“Yet some would say, why women's history at all? Surely men and women have always shared a world, and suffered together all its rights…

— Rosalind Miles

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

— Andrea Dworkin