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A vast majority of Republicans are on the record saying that they believe the Violence Against Women Act should be reauthorized. Let me be clear: I believe that Violence Against Women Act must be reauthorized. -- John Cornyn
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
The Violence Against Women Act has been a true bipartisan success story since it was first enacted in 1994. In my home state of Texas alone, its programs have helped hundreds of thousands of victims to break free from the terrible cycle of domestic violence. -- John Cornyn
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
It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it. -- Zainab Salbi
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. -- Gwen Moore
Of course I am for stopping violence against women. It is unfortunate that the Senate Democrats are making the current re-authorization of Violence Against Women bill into a political football. The Republicans are offering an improved version of the reauthorization bill and I want to review it. -- Sarah Steelman
Show me pornography which promotes violence against women, and I'll buy it. -- Jim Goad
Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this. -- Nicole Kidman
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
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
We must unite. Violence against women cannot be tolerated, in any form, in any context, in any circumstance, by any political leader or by any government. -- Ban Ki-moon
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
When violence against women is no longer societally accepted, no longer kept secret; when everyone understands that even one case is too many. That's when it will change. -- Joe Biden
The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture. -- Gloria Steinem
Unfortunately, violence against women is not the only injustice women face globally; it is one of the many inequalities that impede the full development of socially excluded women globally. -- Zainab Salbi
There's been an awful lot of silence in make culture about this ongoing tragedy of men's violence against women and children... we need to break that silence, and we need more men to do that. -- Jackson Katz
I've been doing this work [ambassador of VDay]for a long time, and there are so many ways that we have to work to eradicate domestic violence and violence against women, this felt like such a tangible way to make a difference. -- Kerry Washington
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
Look, guys, no matter what a girl does, no matter how she's dressed, no matter how much she's had to drink, it's never, never, never, never, never OK to touch her without her consent. This doesn't make you a man. It makes you a coward. -- Joe Biden
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. -- Patrick Stewart
For most of recorded history, parental violence against children and men's violence against wives was explicitly or implicitly condoned. Those who had the power to prevent and/or punish this violence through religion, law, or custom, openly or tacitly approved it. .....The reason violence against women and children is finally out in the open is that activists have brought it to global attention. -- Riane Eisler
As legislators and as Members of Congress, it is our obligation to speak up for those who are being ignored in our society. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) does just that. -- Gwen Moore
I was proud to be an original cosponsor of the Violence Against Women Act when Congress passed it in 1994, and was proud to support the previous renewals in 2000 and 2005. These bills always enjoyed large, bipartisan support. -- Carolyn Maloney
Violence against women is as American as apple pie. -- Gwen Moore
I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence. -- Helen Garner
I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women. -- Caprice Bourret
Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls. -- Eve Ensler
Hillary Clinton has a strong and powerful voice regarding ending violence against women and girls. -- Amanda Lindhout
I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable. -- Eve Ensler
The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem. -- Gloria Steinem
Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience. -- Gwen Moore
We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us. -- Patricia Ireland
As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea. -- Charlotte Bunch
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates. -- Michelle Bachelet
So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that. -- Donna Leon
The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized. -- Katherine Dunn
With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated. -- Jenny Shipley
I have always believed that resistance against repression and violence is possible without relying on similar repression and violence. I have always believed that human civilization is the fruit of the effort of both women and men. -- Tawakkol Karman
All women and girls have the fundamental right to live free of violence. This right is enshrined in international human rights and humanitarian law. And it lies at the heart of my UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign. -- Ban Ki-moon
Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common - they exist to keep women 'in their place.' To make sure that we're acting 'appropriately,' whatever that means. -- Jessica Valenti
Domestic violence is the front line of the war against women. -- Pearl Cleage
I'm not someone who ever enjoys violence against women or children. -- Lucy Lawless
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Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation, -- Patrick Stewart
There is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women. -- Lee Maracle
I'm especially interested in helping to give visibility to the pandemic of violence against women -- Nicole Kidman
The Centers for Disease Control says that men's violence against women is at epidemic proportions. -- Tony Porter
We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women. -- Katha Pollitt
The passive and overt violence waged against the women and children of the world must end. -- Bryant McGill
Let's start a movement - a movement of men who aren't afraid to stop violence against women. -- Carlos Andres Gomez
There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time. -- Louise Erdrich
Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now. -- Samantha Power
I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women. -- Eve Ensler
I would never condone violence against women in any form, and for all of those I offended, I am sincerely sorry. -- Russell Simmons
My wish for the world would be to end violence against women. My wish for myself would be for peace of mind. -- Gabrielle Union
The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it's violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet. -- Eve Ensler
The White Ribbon Foundation is organization I support. They're bringing awareness of violence against women and I think it's important in our society. -- Dustin Clare
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
I am going to ensure that LGBTQ Americans have full equality under the law and address the urgent crisis of violence against transgender women of color. -- Hillary Clinton
Women's Aid is a fantastic charity which has my full support. I am proud to call myself a Real Man, a man who will stand up against domestic violence. -- Neil Fox
The best protection against rape, stalking, and domestic violence is to raise men who both understand that women are different, and would never dare take advantage of this difference. -- Wendy Shalit
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. -- Lynn Woolsey
Fiction is about telling a good story, first and foremost. But of course, everything I'm interested in or angry about leaks into my writing, from art to violence against women. -- Lauren Beukes
Violence against women is clearly not solved, not at all solved, and the reasons for it, which are controlling women's bodies in order to control reproduction, are definitely not solved. -- Gloria Steinem
We need to take violence against women seriously. It is the biggest indicator of whether a country is violent inside itself, and whether it will be militarily violent against another country. -- Gloria Steinem
I call on men and boys everywhere to join us. Violence against women and girls will not be eradicated until all of us - men and boys - refuse to tolerate it. -- Ban Ki-moon
Violence against women in this country is not levied against just Democrats, but Republicans as well... not just rich people or poor people. It knows no gender, it knows no ethnicity, it knows nothing. -- Gwen Moore
Much violence against women originates in emotional territory that they already command. By midlife and early old age, as the hormones of both genders change, women are in total, despotic control of their marriages. -- Camille Paglia
I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture. -- Patricia Ireland
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
As long as music of mine is not used to preach hate, or to bash women, it's okay for me. If it doesn't promote violence against women, drugs, this and that, use it, go ahead. -- Angelique Kidjo

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