Violence Against Women Quotes
![Gwen Moore quote: "Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know,..."](/pic/225307/600x316/quotation-gwen-moore-violence-against-women-is-as-american-as-apple-pie.jpg)
He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way of legalizing violence against women, Nurse Caroline would say.
John Irving
Acknowledging that a woman's right to be safe from a gender-based attack was a "civil right," I believed, was critically important in changing the American consciousness. When a right reaches the status and categorization of a "civil right," it means the nation has arrived at a consensus that is nonnegotiable. Violence against women would no longer be written off ... Once our criminal justice system -- at the local, state and federal levels -- recognized these as serious and inexcusable...
Joe Biden
![Charlotte Bunch quote: "As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against..."](/pic/73708/600x316/quotation-charlotte-bunch-as-a-human-rights-issue-the-effort-to-end.jpg)