Gender Violence Quotes

“I wish we'd be able to deliver our message at the global level on the need to recognize the past genocides in order to prevent new ones. Our message of peace and justice will hopefully reach every corner of the world.”
― Widad Akreyi

“Mostly when people write about the trauma of gender violence, it's described as one awful, exceptional event or relationship, as though you suddnly fell into the water, but what if you're swimming through it your whole life, and there is no dry land in sight?”
― Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir

“For what woman has not, walking in the dark of the street or along a path deep in the countryside, sensed the brutal imaginings of a man watching her from his hidden place, and felt the same chills chasing over her skin, and quickened her steps to get away.”
― Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

“We are ready to think of humans as MACHINES but we are not ready to think of humans as ANIMALS.”
― Kirtida Gautam, #iAm16iCan

“I never thought that the word RAPE will appear in my life because a woman I deeply care about is raped.

~ Taz”
― Kirtida Gautam, #iAm16iCan

“Now I know I am done. Now I know She is done.

~ Aarush Kashyap”
― Kirtida Gautam, #iAm16iCan

“Never be so afraid of making mistakes that you stop taking actions.
~ Kaizen Quote”
― Kirtida Gautam, #iAm16iCan

“On the 25th anniversary of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, let us remember that we have a chance to save lives! If we don't take it, we may regret it!”
― Widad Akreyi

“There is a difference between a good society and a society that fakes goodness.”
― Kirtida Gautam, #iAm16iCan

“People are dying because they are trying to prove they are strong. Being strong doesn't mean you have to fight everything alone. It doesn't mean you have to go through what you are going through alone . It doesn't mean you have to bundle, all the pain, problems and suffering , but being STRONG it means asking help & advice when you have to. Asking for guidance & directions when needed. Choosing to speak to someone than holding everything inside. Speak to someone on what you are going through .It takes a courage and that is being strong when you choose to speak out .”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Gender wars in a relationship.
Men try to destroy the physical beauty of a women. Women try to destroy Man's life (career, reputation,dignity,living life) when they fight.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Derogaría la ley totalitaria de la ideología de género, que hace que se criminalice a la mitad de la población por su sexo. Lo que haría es una ley sobre violencia en el ámbito familiar, que no criminalice a la mitad de la población por su sexo.”
― Santiago Abascal Conde

“The violent sexualization of prison life within women's institutions raises a number of issues that may help us develop further our critique of the prison system. (...) For women, the continuity of treatment from the free world to the universe of the prison is even more complicated, since they also confront
forms of violence in prison that they have confronted in their homes and intimate relationships .”
― Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?

“The other faction, far less visible or influential, arose in the marginalized communities, among women - Black, brown, queer, trans, poor, disabled - whom the state has never protected. These abolition feminists have learned from experience that prisons do not end violence, but rather perpetrate and perpetuate it, while destroying individual lives, families, and communities. Like a lot of their compatriots in the carceral feminist movement, many are themselves survivors of sexual harm. But, unlike the other contingent, their politics join the struggle against sexual and gender violence with that against the "white supremacist prison nation," to use the term coined by abolitionist scholar Beth E. Richie.”
― Judith Levine, The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Harm, Ending State Violence