Violence against women and girls is a grave violation of human rights. Its impact ranges from immediate to long-term multiple physical, sexual and mental consequences for women and girls, including death. It negatively affects women’s general well-being and prevents women from fully participating in society. Violence not only has negative consequences for women but also their families, the community and the country at large. It has tremendous costs, from greater health care and legal expenses and losses in productivity, impacting national budgets and overall development. In this article, there are some important violence against women quotes and sayings .
"No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone." Salma Hayek
"All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a women." Catharine mackinnon
"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." Richard Branson
"I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence." Helen Garner
"There is a direct connection between violence against the earth and violence against women." Lee Maracle
"Islam has no problem with women, but Muslims do clearly appear to have serious problems with them." Tariq Ramadan
"The Violence Against Women Act protects the lives of tens of thousands of domestic violence victims. But the U.S. must also support gender equality around the world, and that means acknowledging that some nations we consider to be our friends are no friends to women." Barbara Boxer
"Violence against women is learned. Each of us must examine - and change - the way in which our own behavior might contribute to, enable, ignore or excuse all such forms of violence. I promise to do so, and to invite other me and allies to do the same." Patrick Stewart
"We talk about how many women were raped last year, not about how many men raped women." Jackson Katz
"Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this." Nicole Kidman
"As a Goodwill Ambassador for UNIFEM, I've learned that violence against women knows no boundaries. Join me in helping women worldwide who have suffered unthinkable violence." Nicole Kidman
"We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue." Eve Ensler
"The early feminist argument that violence against women is not inherently a private matter, but has been privatized by the sexist structures of the state, the economy, and the family has had a powerful impact on public consciousness." Angela Davis
"Violence against women can end only when the culprits get punished." Mukhtar Ma'i
"Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more." Salma Hayek
"We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them." Jackson Katz
"Violence against women is still treated as a lesser crime. Armed groups turn it into a weapon of choice because of near total impunity." Angelina Jolie
"Finding violence against women means opening to the great power of women, the mystery of women, the heart of women, the wild unending sexuality and creativity of women – and not being afraid." Eve Ensler
"Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation, and it is perhaps the most pervasive. It knows no boundaries of geography, culture or wealth. As long as it continues, we cannot claim to be making real progress towards equality, development and peace." Kofi Annan
"The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it." Patricia Ireland
"Poor women suffer terrible sexual violence that goes unreported. Because of their social class, these women do not have access to therapy or other methods of healing. Their repeated abuse ultimately eats away at their self-esteem, driving them to drugs, prostitution, AIDS, and in many cases, death." Eve Ensler
"Violence against women is an everyday reality, act now, always, and forever before its too late." Unknown
"I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced." Zainab Salbi
"There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable." Ban Ki-moon
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