Domestic life Quote by Toni Jensen

“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

“It’s not that I want to pick on men. I just think that if we noticed that women are, on the whole, radically less…

— Rebecca Solnit

“I defend the authority of women and explore its meaning for them rather than assume they need to be more accommodating or sensitive.”

— David Bedrick

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

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“I think we would understand misogyny and violence against women even better if we looked at the abuse of power as a whole rather…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Our whole cultural perception of sexism, as the context in which the majority of gendered violence happens, seems to be understood in the same…

— 404 Ink

“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

“The letting go of patriarchy which creates one-sided citizens of women and men alike and culminates in violent living and violent relationships.”

— Matthew Fox

“Sexism is a combination of prejudice against persons based on their gender, combined with the privilege and power required to cause harm.”

— Bailey Poland

We must talk about how sexism and patriarchy operate in conjunction with state violence. Until we're honest about that, and do something to resist,…

— Marc Lamont Hill

“Yet despite all these things we know to be true- despite the preponderance of evidence showing the mental and emotional distress people demonstrate in…

— Jessica Valenti

Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common - they…

— Jessica Valenti