Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quotes

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 was physically abused and I retaliated.

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

My mother would beat me so bad, I wouldn't be able to sit down. And I would never snitch.

Most women who go public with #MeToo stories are fearful for obvious reasons. There is the pain of reliving traumatic experiences. There is the rage of not being believed.

Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.

What first caught my eye about Rihanna was an interview she did with Diane Sawyer after the Chris Brown incident, where she was very articulate, very poised, obviously a smart girl who talked about a very traumatic experience.

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

Beat your wife on the wedding day, and your married life will be happy.

Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.

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.

It is difficult to have the guts to speak up about any kind of sexual assault.

I don't want to get punched all my life.

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

As a child, I heard in my home doctors and ambulance men say, 'Mrs. Stewart, you must've done something to provoke him.' 'Mrs. Stewart, it takes two to make an argument.' Wrong. Wrong! My mother did nothing to provoke that - and even if she had, violence is never ever a choice that a man should make. Ever.

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

It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.

But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.

When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.

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

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.