Veronica Roth Quotes

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

Domestic violence and violence against women in general seems to be a big problem everywhere in the world. It seems to me this problem comes from stress, pent up anger, frustration, and all kinds of negativity within human beings.

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

As a child, I heard in my home doctors and ambulance men say, 'Mrs. Stewart, you must've done something to provoke him.' 'Mrs. Stewart, it takes two to make an argument.' Wrong. Wrong! My mother did nothing to provoke that - and even if she had, violence is never ever a choice that a man should make. Ever.

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.

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.

I just can't see myself with a man on the ropes and just to prove how bad I am - and I see in his eyes, his head, he's hopeless - and I'm just deliberately hitting. I don't do that.

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

If you're in a domestic situation where the man is violent, patriarchy and male domination - even though you understand it intersectionally - you focus, you highlight that dimension of it, if that's what is needed to change the situation.

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

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie.

You can’t have men hitting women, period.

I've never put my hands on a woman, physically, ever.

I'm not accustomed to taking a swing at a woman's head. That's not in my DNA.

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

I know just about everything that really goes on with domestic violence.

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.

I don't need a tank top to be a wife beater

Whoever said men hit harder when women are around, is right. Word for word, we beat the love out of each other.

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

Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat. Men have claimed the earth, called it 'Her'. Men ruin Her. Men have airplanes, guns, bombs, poisonous gases, weapons so perverse and deadly that they defy any authentically human imagination.

You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.

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.

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