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Quotes About Awareness

Meanwhile, every eighteen seconds a man beats a woman, every three minutes a man rapes a woman, and every day two men will murder women. And that's just in the United States.
~ Lierre Keith
I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced.
~ Zainab Salbi
We all, as women, need to continue to change our gaze from how we are seen to how we are seeing.
~ Tracee Ellis Ross
Women, with their sure instincts, realized that my intention was to make them not just more beautiful but also happier.
~ Christian Dior
When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had a history worth knowing.
~ Gerda Lerner
I saw no poor men, except a few intemperate ones. I saw some very poor women; but God and man know that the time has not come for women to make their injuries even heard of.
~ Harriet Martineau
I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion.
~ Geoffrey Beene
We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting
~ Khalil Gibran
I've learned not to put things in my mouth that are bad for me.
~ Monica Lewinsky
Men never fail to underestimate women.
~ Zhao Yun
Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards.
~ Omar Sharif
Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there's no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners.
~ Kate Thornton
We need to alert women everywhere about the seriousness of heart disease.
~ Laura Bush
There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.
~ Kathryn Bigelow
The only women who don't believe that sexual harassment is a real problem in this country are women who have never been in the workplace.
~ Cynthia Heimel
Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.
~ Melinda Gates
If the numbers we see in domestic violence were applied to terrorism or gang violence, the entire country would be up in arms, and it would be the lead story on the news every night.
~ Unknown
We cannot train women and forget about the men. We should train men to know the potential of women.
~ Sakena Yacoobi
It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it.
~ Zainab Salbi
Women don't ask to be raped, but there are some that are asking to be motorboated
~ Sarah Silverman
Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming.
~ Paulo Freire
Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn't make it right.
~ B. J. Novak
I'm like a sponge: I like to listen.
~ Maureen Chiquet
I'm a sponge for information.
~ Nikki Sixx