Quote by Rebecca Solnit

“Violence, especially if you are a woman, is not something spoken about with ease.”

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“We're all violent. Especially when it concerns the ones we love. They're intimately connected, love and hate.”

— Tess Gerritsen

“You don't get to do this when you're a girl, so when the opportunity for violence finally presents itself, I want all of it…

— Courtney Summers

“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

“Some men are made for doing violence. Some are meant for planning it. Then there are a special few whose talent is for taking…

— Joe Abercrombie

“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 is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It’s attractive because it’s simple, it’s direct, it’s almost always available as…

— Corey, James S. A

“There are very subtle shades of violence, I can assure you. A civilization that renounces the possibility of resorting to violence in thought or…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

“I have never been a violent man. Just a little creepy, it seems.”

— Tim Winton

As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.

— Steven Pinker

“The fact that gendered violence is overwhelmingly enacted by men on women* is not because women* are incapable of fucking up; a lot of…

— 404 Ink

“Violence only begets violence when we allow it to. We always have a choice.”

— P.T. Denys