Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way.
No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.
Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.
I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.
Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.
Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.
I've never seen a world where only men were responsible for the violence, and the women were innocent. They go together. Men and women are a violent mixture.
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.
As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.
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.