Patricia Ireland Quotes

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.

I can hear the roar of women's silence.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie.

The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.

You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway. You can’t stop us, neither

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

If anything like #MeToo happens, women can come to MNS. We will teach a lesson to accused. Women must raise the voice when they face oppression, not after 10 years.

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

Any time you do something - a protest - you know there's going to be backlash.

There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now.

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

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn't in her.

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

I really want to help stop violence toward women.

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

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.'

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.

What I hope to do is create a play that investigates the ongoing violence toward women and children in the world, and searches for some kind of answer to the question, 'What Can We Do?'

Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?

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.

I have never seen a connection between cinematic violence towards women and actual violence towards women in society.

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

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

Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike.