Gillian Flynn Quotes

A theme that has always interested me is how women express anger, how women express violence. That is very much part of who women are, and it's so unaddressed. A vast amount of literature deals with cycles of violence about men, antiheroes. Women lack that vocabulary.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie.

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

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

If you're in a domestic situation where the man is violent, patriarchy and male domination - even though you understand it intersectionally - you focus, you highlight that dimension of it, if that's what is needed to change the situation.

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.

All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.

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.

Cinema has only been around for about 100 years. Has all of the world's violence towards women taken place only within the past 100 years?

What is it in our society that encourages us to periodically to turn on each other? What is it in our society that leads us to the cycle of violence.

The truth is this: Brutalized, victimized children invariably will brutalize and victimize when they grow up. Is our only response to this the certain promise that we will penalize them when they do? Or will we commit to keeping our children safe from brutality and victimization?

Historically, aggression unanswered has led to more aggression.

Female violence is a specific brand of ferocity. It's invasive. A girlfight is all teeth and hair, spit and nails - a much more fearsome thing to watch than two dudes clobbering each other.

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.

'This Is Not That Dawn' is remarkable in part for its careful and sensitive attention to women's lives - and also for its harsh critique of men and their failure to stop violence.

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

Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.

Violence against women and children resembles an epidemic. It has spread through society, sparing no social group or class.

Violence against women is not inevitable.

I want the men of our nation to stand and take a stand 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.

A lot of times, we don't seek the help. If you come from a family where you might have been abused, a lot of times, particularly with males, regardless of what the ethnic background is there's a sense of like 'Just keep it moving.'

Violence was very much a part of my mother's upbringing - a little less so with my father's, but my father was an angry man when he was young. He was angry and frustrated and had no idea how to channel anger.