Sean Connery Quotes

What is harm for some women isn’t harm for another. Some women accept beatings and insults as a joke, while others do not.

You can’t have men hitting women, period.

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.

Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.

As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.

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

There are endless new variations on how to hurt a woman physically, emotionally, financially, and socially.

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

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.'

Women are totally unsafe in Punjab.

The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.

I have never seen a connection between cinematic violence towards women and actual violence towards women in society.

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

Women are routinely demeaned, dismissed, discouraged and assaulted. Too many women's careers are stymied or ended because of harassment and abuse. In politics, where I have worked much of my adult life, this behavior is rampant.

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

Professional fights between men and women send the message that violence between men and women is appropriate. In most homes, that's not a fair fight, which is why I'm against intergender boxing.

#MeToo shows this bias is systemic, that people get away with violence against women, get away with discrimination - whether in work or society in general - because, for too long, silence has been the answer.

I don't put my hands on women.

There is a fundamental and culturally learned power imbalance between men and women, and it follows us into the workplace. The violence born of this imbalance follows us also. We would like to believe that it stops short of following us into the laboratory and into the field - but it does not.

There is no reason to hit a woman. And I was just like, really? I could give you, like, 17 right off the top of my head.

We've gotta dispense with calling guys who are effeminate or who throw like girls "sissies." You know why? Because that diminishes women, and that can lead to such things as you decking your woman in a hotel elevator in New Jersey with your fist.

When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble.

I hate the victimization of women, always.

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