Theresa May Quotes

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

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.

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.'

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

As men, we all have something to give. We all have the power to do our own part to stop the global pandemic of violence against women and girls. It is holding us all back.

I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced.

Has feminism increased the pool of happy women?

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.

'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.

My gender has never been an issue or a limitation. I was fortunate enough to be surrounded by strong women growing up, and with them as my role models, I was never limited by the traditional roles women find themselves in.

Hillary Clinton has a strong and powerful voice regarding ending violence against women and girls.

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.

Women are totally unsafe in Punjab.

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

I still try to be a feminist in some tiny way.

Every now and then I am reminded that even though the need for being a feminist is gradually disappearing in this country, we haven't quite reached the millennium.

Congress has been pathetic. Not only did it fail to renew the Violence Against Women Act, but it has also stalled on the global version, the International Violence Against Women Act, which would name and shame foreign countries that tolerate gender violence.

Women and girls transform societies.

Everyone has to learn how to live in an environment that has not made it easy for women to claim their place, so I think it's all women's responsibility to step forward.

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.

There is no denying that we have made great progress toward gender equality.

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

I would always stand up for women, but I don't want women's rights and all that sort of thing. I love to have men around, and I suppose if you're a true feminist, you get on and do it yourself. I love it when someone says, 'I'll get your coat' or, 'I'll look after you', or offers you a seat on the bus. I'm thrilled to bits. I'm not a feminist.