Helen Garner Quotes

Violence against women is as American as apple pie.

Women are raped and coerced into sex.

I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

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.

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

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 and children resembles an epidemic. It has spread through society, sparing no social group or class.

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

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.

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

I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women.

I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with their drops and one man after another goes in and takes you.

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

If you're in a domestic situation where the man is violent, patriarchy and male domination - even though you understand it intersectionally - you focus, you highlight that dimension of it, if that's what is needed to change the situation.

As many as one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex or abused in some other way - most often by someone she knows, including by her husband or another male family member.

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.

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

Of course I am for stopping violence against women. It is unfortunate that the Senate Democrats are making the current re-authorization of Violence Against Women bill into a political football. The Republicans are offering an improved version of the reauthorization bill and I want to review it.

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.

Women are totally unsafe in Punjab.

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