Quotes About Awareness

Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible.

My niece was a sexual-assault victim. My sister is a survivor of domestic violence. We have more shelters for animals than for battered women. That's not the message we should be sending.

I remember when the wave of Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek and these beautiful Hispanic women came into light, and I looked up to them and I loved them, but I was like, 'Where are Middle Eastern women?'

Because women and girls are not valued equally as human beings, they are treated as less than such. Female genital mutilation is one example of this that has to be stopped.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Even though you get a little twinge every now and again with the years marching on and become aware of your own mortality, you realise you're only limited by your imagination.

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12.

Right now being born a girl is to be born threatened.

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

It is important for women to do something about what they see.

The worst form of slavery is when the slave believes he is free. This is how women under Islam feel.

My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.

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.

Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.

Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.

I know about women. I know that they're not men.

Just because a jackass brays does not mean you have to pay attention.

How many of you guys in your own experience with women have learned that no means yes, if you know how to spot it?

There is no society for the prevention of cruelty to women.

Surely the world we live in is but the world that lives in us.

However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.

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.

We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced