Katha Pollitt Quotes

I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women.

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

Violence toward women isn't cultural; it's criminal.

We need to take violence against women seriously. It is the biggest indicator of whether a country is violent inside itself, and whether it will be militarily violent against another country.

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

Violence against women is as American as apple pie.

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.

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

Violence against women is not inevitable.

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

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

I found it atrocious and downright infuriating to learn that one in three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in her lifetime.

Violence against women continues to persist as one of the most heinous, systematic and prevalent human rights abuses in the world. It is a threat to all women, and an obstacle to all our efforts for development, peace, and gender equality in all societies. Violence against women is always a violation of human rights; it is always a crime; and it is always unacceptable. Let us take this issue with the deadly seriousness that it deserves.

We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Although it is a symbol of life, the female body is unfortunately not rarely attacked and disfigured, even by those who should be its protector and life companion.

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

Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.

The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.