Gender Violence Quotes

#1. Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.

Jackson Katz

#2. On the 25th anniversary of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, let us remember that we have a chance to save lives! If we don't take it, we may regret it!

Widad Akreyi

#3. The amount of gender violence that I experience is absolutely extraordinary. And a significant part of my day today will be spent filing police reports at home about gender violence that's directed at me in social media.

Ashley Judd

#4. Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

Charlotte Bunch

#5. We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this Earth, though it's almost never treated as a civil rights or human rights issue, or a crisis, or even a pattern. Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.

Rebecca Solnit

#6. Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.

Andrea Dworkin

#7. We are ready to think of humans as MACHINES but we are not ready to think of humans as ANIMALS.

Kirtida Gautam

#8. If we are going to have to worry all the time that we might offend some students' sensibilities, we are not going to be able to teach in a way that actually matters. We're not going to be able to teach about sex, gender, race, religion, or violence.

Alice Dreger

#9. Now I know I am done. Now I know She is done.

~ Aarush Kashyap

Kirtida Gautam

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

Kay Redfield Jamison

#11. If we're going to address trafficking in our country we have to address poverty, racism & gender based violence.

Rachel Lloyd

#12. Gender segregated shelters are inaccessible to many trans people, and trans women in particular are often forced to choose between going into a men's shelter where they face enormous danger, or remaining street homeless and facing the violence, harassment, arrest, and exposure risks of that.

Dean Spade

#13. Defining men as the perpetrators of all violence is a viciously immoral judgment of an entire gender. And defining women as inherently nonviolent condemns us to the equally restrictive role of sweet, meek, and weak.

Katherine Dunn

#14. Writing from the perspective of women survivors of violence, Moore is at his most appealing; though his writing about sex and brutality can verge on the exploitative, he sometimes reveals an unexpected sympathy with dominated women.

Zoe Brigley

#15. Women are the victims of war ... as widows they've faced the trauma of being single parents and livelihoods of families are affected. A lot of gender-related problems come up in terms of health, education, domestic violence, etc.

Kumari Jayawardena

#16. Some day, my son, you are going to learn that the two greatest joys of being a man are beating the hell out of someone and getting the hell beaten out of you, good night.

Richard Price

#17. The use of rape and enslavement as weapons of war MUST END!

Widad Akreyi

#18. We are determined to answer evil with GOOD, slavery with FREEDOM, rape with hope!
We are against slavery, rape, beheading, torture, violations of human rights, corruption and misuse of religion!

Widad Akreyi

#19. Violence against women in this country is not levied against just Democrats, but Republicans as well ... not just rich people or poor people. It knows no gender, it knows no ethnicity, it knows nothing.

Gwen Moore

#20. With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated.

Jenny Shipley

#21. Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace and security everywhere.

John F. Kerry

#22. Are you telling me that men are compelled by the mere fact of their gender to choose violence as their first resort?"
"Partly. It satisfies our sense of justice, it makes us feel good, and it always improves our odds with women.

Kate Meader

#23. Our goals can only be achieved with a society that respects and equally protects the rights of every human being, old and young, rich and poor, regardless of gender, color, race, or creed. We must reject the initiation of violence by individuals or government as morally repugnant.

Ron Paul

#24. But the idea of an Aryan race could never become metaphysically true, despite all the violence unleashed to create it, because there simply is no Aryan race. There is only the idea of it - and the consequences of trying to make it seem real. The male sex is very like that.

John Stoltenberg

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

Zainab Salbi

#26. The pandemic of violence always gets explained as anything but gender, anything but what would seem to be the broadest explanatory pattern of all.

Rebecca Solnit

#27. There is a difference between a good society and a society that fakes goodness.

Kirtida Gautam

#28. One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behavior generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn't have a pandemic.

Stephen Lewis

#29. I never thought that the word RAPE will appear in my life because a woman I deeply care about is raped.

~ Taz

Kirtida Gautam

#30. I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.

Patton Oswalt

#31. Education about gender and peace is important. Educational strategies to promote peace must consider all relations of dominance.

Widad Akreyi

#32. It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation.

Judith Butler

#33. In many parts of the world, women and girls are especially vulnerable to HIV/AIDS because they lack control over most aspects of their life. Cultural expectations and gender roles expose women and girls to violence, sexual exploitation and far greater risk for infection.

Hillary Clinton

#34. The passive and overt violence waged against the women and children of the world must end.

Bryant McGill

#35. The Violence Against Women Act protects the lives of tens of thousands of domestic violence victims. But the U.S. must also support gender equality around the world, and that means acknowledging that some nations we consider to be our friends are no friends to women.

Barbara Boxer

#36. Never be so afraid of making mistakes that you stop taking actions.
~ Kaizen Quote

Kirtida Gautam

#37. Intimate justice touches on ideas of gender inequity, violence, bodily integrity, physical and mental health. I don't expect a 15-year-old girl to have that figured out; it's hard enough to have it figured out when you're 50.

Peggy Orenstein

#38. I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

Judith Butler

#39. In the system of chivalry, men protect women against men. This is not unlike the protection relationship which [organized crime] established with small businesses in the early part of this century. Indeed, chivalry is an age-old protection racket which depends for its existence on rape.

Susan Griffin