Patricia Ireland Quotes

I keep thinking about how terrifyingly vulnerable women are in so many countries.

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

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

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

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

Violence against women is as American as apple pie.

Women are totally unsafe in Punjab.

The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.

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

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.

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

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.

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.'

Why don't we actually fight for a woman's right even to complain about being beaten up. That is more important than driving. If a woman is beaten, they are told to go back to their homes - their fathers, husbands, brothers - to be beaten up again and locked up in the house.

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.

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

Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.

You can’t have men hitting women, period.

Violence against women is not inevitable.

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

Girls have been suppressed for long. Crimes against women are on the rise because women have the courage to come out in the open and fight the perpetrators of these heinous crimes.

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.

Domestic violence is the front line of the war against women.

There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.

I'm especially interested in helping to give visibility to the pandemic of violence against women