Warren Farrell Quotes

Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.

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

Violence against women is fundamentally about power.

I don't believe in violence against women.

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

I've been beaten. I know what that's like. They say, 'Who has been a nail can learn to be a hammer.' So I know what it is to beat people.

One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it remains one of the invisible and under-recognized pandemics of our time.

Feminism exists so that no woman ever has to face her abuser in isolation, alone.

In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of sex; they were not coerced enough.

I represent an affluent district, but when I worked to form my county's first battered-women's shelter, some nights there were no beds left. Violence against women crosses all economic lines.

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

I think women need to have a lobby. I feel that women need to speak out. The first time a man hits you is one too many times and you need to do something about it. That something about it is walking out that door and seeking for help and never looking back.

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

The moment that I realized my name was going to be said in the same sentence as children and sex, that's really intense. That's something I knew from that very moment, whatever happens past that point, something's out there in the air that is really bad.

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another.

'Firelight' is a beautiful story about a lot of young women. My character, Caroline, is a girl who has a bad boyfriend, and he ends up getting her locked up and incarcerated.

At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.

Where I'm from, they'll beat your head until it gets back down to normal size.

I've never seen a world where only men were responsible for the violence, and the women were innocent. They go together. Men and women are a violent mixture.

As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.

I really want to help stop violence toward women.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.