Lynn Woolsey Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

Violence against women is not inevitable.

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 an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.

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.

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.

Violence is a common part of far too many women's lives.

We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue.

It's a bad thing that happens to women, but when you look at that term 'violence against women,' nobody is doing it to them. It just happens to them. Men aren't even a part of it.

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 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 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.'

What I hope to do is create a play that investigates the ongoing violence toward women and children in the world, and searches for some kind of answer to the question, 'What Can We Do?'

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.

In the State of Israel, there are still women who suffer mental and physical violence just because they are women. Many people suffer mental and physical violence, but there is a certain section of the population that harasses women because they are women, and we must fight this vigorously. Anyone who infringes on the rights of women or their freedom, or who works to discriminate against women, works against the principles and ideals of the State of Israel.

You can’t have men hitting women, period.

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