Claire Denis Quotes

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

Women are just as violently minded as men are, but with men, it's taken for granted.

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

Men that aren't threatened by opinionated, faintly aggressive women are in a minority.

Women are totally unsafe in Punjab.

In the battle between the sexes, men and women will go practically to the end of the earth in illogical, irrational ways to give each other pain.

We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.

Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls.

By all measures men are the more violent gender.

Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

It's something that I feel I know about, relationships between men and women. I like to write from the woman's point of view now and again, to get inside her head, to feel what she's feeling.

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.'

For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.

A lot of women - not all of them, a lot of them - feel insecure about men being men.