Gloria Steinem Quotes

Congress has been pathetic. Not only did it fail to renew the Violence Against Women Act, but it has also stalled on the global version, the International Violence Against Women Act, which would name and shame foreign countries that tolerate gender violence.

There is increasing recognition that violence against women is a major barrier to the fulfilment of human rights and a direct challenge to women's inclusion and participation in sustainable development and sustaining peace.

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 not inevitable.

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.

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

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.

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.

We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.

Violence against women continues to persist as one of the most heinous, systematic and prevalent human rights abuses in the world. It is a threat to all women, and an obstacle to all our efforts for development, peace, and gender equality in all societies. Violence against women is always a violation of human rights; it is always a crime; and it is always unacceptable. Let us take this issue with the deadly seriousness that it deserves.

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.

There's been an awful lot of silence in make culture about this ongoing tragedy of men's violence against women and children... we need to break that silence, and we need more men to do that.

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. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.

With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated.

A vast majority of Republicans are on the record saying that they believe the Violence Against Women Act should be reauthorized. Let me be clear: I believe that Violence Against Women Act must be reauthorized.

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

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.'