Eve Ensler Quotes

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

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

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.

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

Cinema has only been around for about 100 years. Has all of the world's violence towards women taken place only within the past 100 years?

[Rape] is nothing more or less than a conscious process on intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear.

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

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

Violence against women and children resembles an epidemic. It has spread through society, sparing no social group or class.

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

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.

I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with their drops and one man after another goes in and takes you.

Women are raped and coerced into sex.

Every three minutes a woman is being raped. Every eighteen seconds a woman is being beaten. There is nothing abstract about it. It is happening right now as I am speaking.

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

Violence against women is not inevitable.

As women, we have to deal with constant threats of violence. And it's in our media and fiction, too. So we internalize it.

While religious fundamentalism is treated as a serious social problem because it has the potential to lead to rare but devastating acts of terrorism against the public, with a variety of programmes and interventions to address it, everyday violence against women occurring in the name of fundamentalism has long been neglected.

#MeToo shows this bias is systemic, that people get away with violence against women, get away with discrimination - whether in work or society in general - because, for too long, silence has been the answer.

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.

The #metoo campaign picked up speed after the actress Alyssa Milano suggested that if every woman simply typed 'me too' on their platform of choice, they might give the world a true sense of the magnitude of the problem. The hope is that safety in numbers might minimize the shame many women feel in admitting that this has happened to them.

Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.

... in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience of violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men.

What if one out of every three multinational corporation CEO's were raped every year? Don't you think that would raise a kind of ruckus?