Gender-Based Violence Quotes

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

I don't think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though I don't recommend you do it the same way that you hit a man.

[Rape] is nothing more or less than a conscious process on intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear.

Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists, and that’s all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws and their codes.

…rape, incest, and me.

Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.

When we advocate for violence against women to be eliminated on campuses, we say, 'Well, actually, it's not just on campuses we have to worry about.' We might have to worry about high schools. We might have to worry about police precincts and cars. We might have to worry about public housing.

Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. Women often have to flee from the only homes they have ever known. Women are often the refugees from conflict and sometimes, more frequently in today's warfare, victims. Women are often left with the responsibility, alone, of raising the children.

Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.

Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there.

Treating women like a burden to the men is one of the reasons for poverty.

To chop off the heads of men I use a special sword, following the writings of the prophet Mohammed, while I use a gun to execute women. When the job is done, I get a sense of delight and thank God for giving me this power.

While religious fundamentalism is treated as a serious social problem because it has the potential to lead to rare but devastating acts of terrorism against the public, with a variety of programmes and interventions to address it, everyday violence against women occurring in the name of fundamentalism has long been neglected.

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

I'm not someone who ever enjoys violence against women or children.

Don't hit women. Never, ever, ever.

But it's the men who are attacking the women. If there's to be a curfew, let the men stay home, not the women.

Murder of a man by his wife was called treason (petty as distinguished from high treason), and was more cruelly avenged than was usually the case with high treason;

Movements like Time's Up and #MeToo are putting the problems out there and creating conversations about the issues, and that's really how the healing process starts.

If “all men are born free,” how is it that all women are born slaves?

Maybe I'm a bad feminist, but I am deeply committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. I have strong opinions about misogyny, institutional sexism that consistently places women at a disadvantage, the inequity in pay, the cult of beauty and thinness, the repeated attacks on reproductive freedom, violence against women, and on and on. I am as committed to fighting fiercely for equality as I am committed to disrupting the notion that there is an essential feminism.

People talk about sexual assault like it's a bad habit that men have.

We must develop a truly global roadmap to eradicate all forms of discrimination still suffered by women.

Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.

When a woman cries date rape what she means is the whole thing went too quickly.