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

I have never seen a connection between cinematic violence towards women and actual violence towards women in society.

I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

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.

Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.

Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.

The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.

In my own experience, I've found that it's very difficult to make peace with women. We tend to be competitive and feel angry.

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.