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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.
Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.
I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.
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?
I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.
I have never seen a connection between cinematic violence towards women and actual violence towards women in society.
We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
Now, I have always believed that women are not victims; we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace - all we need is a fighting chance.