Michelle Yeoh Quotes

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 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've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In any case, we think that it's an important issue whether it's going up or not. And we are determined to stop it.

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

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.

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

I really want to help stop violence toward women.

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.

Women are totally unsafe in Punjab.

The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized.

I'm very anti-domestic violence.

I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.

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.

Violence against women is a huge issue. A good feminist should be working on that - making the world a safer place for girls and women, wherever they live.

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

When we advocate for violence against women to be eliminated on campuses, we say, 'Well, actually, it's not just on campuses we have to worry about.' We might have to worry about high schools. We might have to worry about police precincts and cars. We might have to worry about public housing.

I want the men of our nation to stand and take a stand against gender based violence.

We all have responsibility to stop violence and discrimination against women, whether it's in our businesses, in our homes, or on our streets.

In working to end violence against women and children, we need to ensure that men are centrally involved. Men need to organise themselves in a sustained campaign against gender-based violence.

Crimes against women are growing day by day. Despite this, the mindset of our leaders, politicians, or judicial system is not changing.

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

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.

It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it.

When people were very concerned about the violence against women, I encouraged people to stick with it because it was going somewhere and there was a reason why. It's all a commentary on gender roles and women and having to be the damsel or to stay on the ranch or to stay at home.