Gloria Steinem Quotes

Violence toward women isn't cultural; it's criminal.

I feel like acts of violence against women are detestable, and they need to be dealt with, and they are important.

I personally believe that violence against women in our society is not going anywhere.

Violence against women is still treated as a lesser crime. Armed groups turn it into a weapon of choice because of near total impunity.

Violence against women is not inevitable.

There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.

I'm especially interested in helping to give visibility to the pandemic of violence against women

I found it atrocious and downright infuriating to learn that one in three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in her lifetime.

The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.

We need to take violence against women seriously. It is the biggest indicator of whether a country is violent inside itself, and whether it will be militarily violent against another country.

It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it.

Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation.

Violence against women is clearly not solved, not at all solved, and the reasons for it, which are controlling women's bodies in order to control reproduction, are definitely not solved.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie.

There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this is not happening in my backyard.'

I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In any case, we think that it's an important issue whether it's going up or not. And we are determined to stop it.

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

You can’t have men hitting women, period.

Violence against women is fundamentally about power.

Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men and women. Women and girls, however, disproportionately experience violence due to a deeply rooted global culture of gender discrimination.

Domestic violence and violence against women in general seems to be a big problem everywhere in the world. It seems to me this problem comes from stress, pent up anger, frustration, and all kinds of negativity within human beings.

One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it remains one of the invisible and under-recognized pandemics of our time.

Domestic violence is the front line of the war against women.

You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.