120 great phrases against gender violence

Gender violence is and has been throughout history an important problem and social scourge, which has taken many lives and ruined many others.

The fight against this reality has acquired social relevance only in recent times, although different voices have been expressing the suffering of those who suffer ill-treatment, the indignation and the need to face this type of acts.

Some of these voices, some known and others anonymous, have reflected powerful messages. Among them we find great phrases against gender violence.

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Famous phrases and quotes against gender violence

Throughout this article we will see phrases contrary to inequality and gender violence. Some of them are by well-known authors and authors and others of anonymous authorship or part of various advertising campaigns.

Likewise, some start from declarations or works that did not deal directly with this subject, but that nonetheless can be applied or can be found to have some type of relationship with gender violence and violence sexist.

1. Enough of the minutes of fear, humiliation, pain, silence. We have the right that every minute be of freedom, happiness, love, life. (Campaign Not One Less)

These phrases express the will to live and the right of women to be free and happy, to live without fear.

2. We want each other alive. All. Not one less. (Campaign Not One Less)

Many women die every day less than their partners or ex-partners for the mere fact of being one. That is why phrases like this make us see the need to combat gender violence.

3. Faced with the atrocities we have to take sides. Silence stimulates the executioner (Elie Wiesel)

Not acting is not an option in the face of gender violence, since it favors the perpetrator of the aggression to continue inflicting the abuse.

4. Any moment of the day or night is good to say enough is enough and put an end to a stage of your life that you would have wanted not to live (Raimunda de Peñafort)

The renowned judge and writer Raimunda de Peñafort expressed to us in this sentence the need to appear at the moment in which the victim decides that it is necessary to change and end her torment.

5. Neither saints nor whores. We are only women (Rotmi Enciso)

Sometimes raised as a phrase in various demonstrations against gender violence and in favor of equality, this phrase expresses the need to consider women as human beings equal to men: an existence worthy of respect and that does not have to be virtuous and virginal or passionate and sexual, or protected as if it were something fragile and incapable or used as an object.

6. No man is good enough to rule any woman without his consent (Susan Anthony)

There is no one who has the right to choose and dominate our life beyond ourselves.

7. This irrational desire for dominance, control and power over the other person is the main force that fuels domestic violence between couples (Luis Rojas Marcos)

As this well-known Spanish psychiatrist indicates, what ultimately generates abuse is the desire for power over the other, often using traditional gender roles to do so.

8. Walling up your own suffering is risking it devouring you from the inside (Frida Kahlo)

Although the sentence in question does not refer to abuse, it does express a very common reality among people who suffer from it: hide and bury deep down the suffering, something that makes it difficult to make the decision to say enough is enough.

9. All violence is the result of people deluding themselves into believing that their pain is caused by other people, thus thinking that they deserve to be punished (Marshall Rosenberg)

This phrase is quite self-explanatory, and leads us to think that one of the motivators (although not the only one) of the aggression is self-hatred and the feeling of little competence of the abuser.

10. Break the silence. When you witness violence against women, don't sit idly by. Act (Ban Ki Moon)

This phrase from the diplomat and former Secretary General of the United Nations expresses the need for witnesses and those who perceive the abuse do not just ignore it, but help the victims and denounce the acts of violence.

11. A woman's fear of man's violence is the mirror of man's fear of a woman without fear (Eduardo Galeano)

Many cases of gender violence stem from the need of the aggressor to maintain power and control over the other, using aggression as a method of trying to suppress the victim's own power to live freely.

12. We had two options: be silent and die or speak and die. We decided to talk (Malala Yousafzai)

This phrase refers to the reality of many women who are subjected and tied to suffering, pain and even death due to the fear that rebelling will cause them even greater pain.

13. No means no!

Gender-based violence is exercised in multiple ways, one of which is sexual violence: sexual abuse or rape are the best-known examples. Those who perpetrate this type of violence often ignore the refusals of their victim, trivializes them and even insinuates that the victim really wanted to have relationships. That is why it is very important to take into account a message, in principle as simple as it is obvious, like the one expressed by this sentence.

14. No woman can call herself free when she does not have control over her own body (Margaret Sanger)

Many women are forced by their partners to have relationships despite not wanting them or causing them pain and suffering, something that is often hidden or even the person himself does not consider it sexual assault due to the thought that the person who is doing it is her spouse or couple.

18. I have seen men suffering psychologically unable to ask for help for fear that they will not be considered “macho”. The idea that men cannot cry bothers me (Emma Watson)

The young actress expresses in this sentence the fact that although in a much smaller proportion she also some men suffer violence from their partners and do not usually report it for fear of rejection social.

19. The man's violence against his partner is invisible except when it is reported; invisible to all except the children who run the risk of perpetuating it, they as abusers, they as submissive victims (Jacobo Durán)

Gender violence does not only affect the person who directly receives the abuse. If there are children, they will be secondary victims or sometimes even instruments to perpetrate violence against the spouse. Likewise, they are exposed to a parental model that they may replicate in the future. It is also necessary for them to fight to get out of the violent situation.

20. Defend your life, fight for your independence, seek your happiness and learn to love yourself (Izaskun González)

Phrase addressed to all people who are subjected to gender violence, and that seeks to wake them up and make them seek to get out of their situation.

21. There where someone fights for his dignity, for equality, for being free... look into his eyes (Bruce Springsteen)

Being mistreated and being subjected generates great suffering and pain, and breaking up with a partner or deciding that we need to change is often a great difficulty. That is why we must recognize and validate the efforts and courage of those who fight to achieve it.

22. Violence is not just killing the other. There is violence when one uses an aggressive word, when he makes a gesture of contempt at a person, when he obeys because he is afraid (Jiddu Kirshnamurti)

Although the original phrase encompasses other types of violence, this phrase is clearly applicable to gender violence. And it is that this is not only physical violence or death: insults, harassment, coercion and threats are just some of the other types of violence that it includes.

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23. Violence is the last resort of the incompetent (Isaac Asimov)

A phrase also used to condemn gender violence, clearly expresses that violence is the result of the lack of ability to manage the relationship with the other.

24. Qualifying gender violence as a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a huge number of men the perfect excuse not to pay attention (Jackson Katz)

Despite the fact that every day there is more awareness at a social level, the truth is that on many occasions observed that there is a tendency to consider the fight against gender violence as something specific to gender female. However, ending this scourge is everyone's business.

25. Today as yesterday, women must refuse to be submissive and gullible, because dissimulation cannot serve the truth (Germaine Greer)

The absolute submission that tradition imposed on women with respect to men has often been used as an excuse for the exercise of violence, such submission being something that must change in order to ensure freedom and avoid and prevent abusive relationships.

26. Every 15 seconds a woman is assaulted in the world, every 15 seconds a man stops being assaulted (Jorge Moreno Pieiga)

Gender violence is a problem that unfortunately continues to occur every day, and that we must strive to combat.

27. There is no barrier, lock or bolt that you can impose on the freedom of my mind (Virginia Woolf)

The famous writer leaves us a sentence in which she expresses that our mind is and must be free, and that we have to fight to demolish the impositions that they want to pour on it. It pushes us to be strong and to fight violence in order to regain freedom.

28. To be free is not only to get rid of one's own chains, but to live in a way that enhances and respects the freedom of others (Nelson Mandela)

This phrase pushes us to seek to improve the situation of those around us, which includes helping to combat violence against them.

29. Hitting a woman is not something cultural, it is a crime, and should be directed and treated as such (Hillary Clinton)

Sometimes some aggressors and even some victims justify violence considering that it is something "normal", considering that their acts are not negative, having been allowed in the past. But the fact that mistreatment was not so persecuted in ancient times does not imply anything: mistreatment will never stop being so, and must be treated and combated as such.

30. Mentor and teach young men how to be men in ways that don't degrade or abuse girls and women (Jackson Katz)

Jackson Katz is a well-known writer, filmmaker, and educator who has created various gender-based violence prevention programs. One of the points that this author highlights is that one of the pillars to prevent possible situations of violence it is an education free of gender stereotypes that make women subservient to men or as an object sexual.

31. When they tried to shut me up, I screamed (Teresa Wilms)

It is important to bear in mind that sometimes people who suffer some type of gender violence are not listened to, they are vilified and even held responsible for what happened. But just because someone doesn't listen to us doesn't mean we don't have to keep fighting to live free.

32. I don't want to feel brave when I go out on the street. I want to feel free

Many people, especially women, express that the simple fact of going out alone generates a certain fear and insecurity given the high prevalence of sexist attitudes and even sexual harassment (and in some cases abuse and assaults). This causes them great anguish and tension. Nobody wants to live in fear.

33. It is very common for women to think that enduring abuse and cruelty and then forgiving and forgetting is a sign of commitment and love. But when we love well we know that the only healthy and loving response to abuse is to walk away from those who hurt us (Bell Hooks)

Many victims decide to give their abuser another chance, with a somewhat distorted idea that the forgiveness of said acts or the repentance that many abusers manifest after the act of abuse is a sign of their love. But allowing and condoning such acts over and over again only leads to repeating a pattern on an ongoing basis, without changing anything, perpetuating the violence against them.

34. I will not be a free woman while there are still subjected women (Audre Lorde)

This phrase pushes us to fight against gender violence even if we ourselves are not experiencing it, helping to eliminate this scourge from our society.

35. Don't whistle at me, I'm not a dog

When we talk about gender violence we don't just talk about beatings, rapes or insults. Also vexatious and objectifying attitudes can be considered as such.. We must always respect the dignity of others.

36. Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women fear men will kill them (Margaret Atwood)

A brutal phrase that basically reflects the situation of many victims of gender violence: while the abusive party fears losing power and being humiliated, the victim fears death, loneliness or her own futility.

37. You are not alone

Victims of gender-based violence often feel a great sense of inner emptiness and great loneliness, partly due to distance from the rest of the environment to which the aggressor or aggressor usually submits her and partly because she does not dare to accept and tell anyone about her situation. However, and as can be seen in the different marches and demonstrations, the abused person is not alone but has the support of thousands of people, some of which have gone through the same situation.

38. And it all started the day he made me believe that his jealousy was love… (Laura Iglesia San Martín)

Often the aggressors and aggressors resort to violence when they believe that they can lose power over the victim or to guarantee her dominance. And they can also often come to try to justify their attitudes and their jealousy as a show of love, even though it is not such but mere possessiveness and insecurity.

39. Personal, private, lonely pain is more terrifying than anyone can inflict (Jim Morrison)

The suffering of the person who suffers from gender violence is usually experienced alone, often without the victim expressing it with others and even without expressing it externally when she is alone. Sometimes he even tries to deny the situation in order to avoid experiencing it. But all this accentuates and lengthens his pain and suffering.

40. without equality there is no love

In love and relationships, an essential part is the perception by both parties of equality in rights and capacities of each one, being both equivalent although different and there being no relations of superiority and inferiority.

41. They are not the two sexes inferior or superior to each other. They are simply different (Gregorio Marañón)

This phrase tells us that although there are differences between both sexes, this does not imply in any case that one is superior to the other.

42. I'm not accepting the things I can't change, I'm changing the things I can't accept (Angela Davis)

Phrase that pushes us to break down barriers and stereotypes in order to change things and prevent cases of gender violence occur, without giving up or considering that such violence is impossible to Modify.

43. Woman, watch out for verbal abuse, do not allow words like "throw in your face"; useless, self-conscious, rubbish, ignorant, ridiculous, etc... these attributes hide a clear violence that will soon manifest itself (Antón García Abril)

This phrase expresses how often the first step in the emergence of gender violence is the making derogatory comments that put the victim in a position of inferiority with respect to his attacker.

44. There is no reason in a scream. The one who can the most never wins. Speak, you are not an animal (José de Eusebio)

The composer and musician José de Eusebio makes us see in this phrase the need to respect the dignity of the other, in a clear allusion to the verbal and psychological abuse to which many people are subjected regardless of whether or not there is physical aggression from half.

45. Love never hits (Laura Iglesia San Martín)

A simple phrase but with a great message: violence will never be a sign of love.

46. Calling women the weaker sex is a slander: it is the injustice of men towards women (Mahatma Gandhi)

The consideration of women as an inferior human being and subservient to men is one of the cultural elements that have facilitated the emergence of attitudes that can lead to violence of genre.

47. The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans, in the same way that blacks were not made for whites, or women for men (Alice Walker)

Men and women are independent human beings, who do not necessarily require the presence of the other to survive and whose life is not subject to the will of the other.

48. Sometimes you have to forget what you feel and remember what you deserve (Frida Kahlo)

Feelings towards the abuser often make it difficult for the victim of gender-based violence to seek help or decide to continually forgive him. However, these feelings collide with reality: the person they love is making them suffer. It is necessary for all of us to remember what we deserve as human beings that we are: to be free and seek our own happiness.

49. With the blindfold I made a bow in my hair. Now I am prettier and less blind (Sara Buho)

This phrase expresses the need to remove the blindfold and accept the fact that what the person who hurts us is doing is mistreating us. That moment when the victim realizes is the one that allows her to seek help and fight to achieve a better life free of violence.

50. Each damaged, assaulted, murdered woman is the mute and defenseless testimony of the worst that human beings contain: the triumph of brute, blind, wild, sick force, over any feeling, over any thought, over everything that makes us worthy. Let's shout enough (David del Puerto)

These phrases reflect that gender violence is, deep down, a failure of humanity when it comes to developing in a society in which we all have the same rights and can be respected, as well as to manage our own brutality.

51. Violence never enters a heart (Jean Baptiste Molière)

Again, a sign that those who use violence against us do not love us. It is necessary to understand this fact in order to be able to combat it.

52. If he mistreats you and you do nothing, you are letting him do it (Montserrat Delgado)

This sentence is not making the person who was attacked responsible for her situation, but it does reflect that it is up to the victim herself to find a solution.

53. I encourage men and boys everywhere to join us. Gender violence will not be eradicated until all of us refuse to tolerate it. (Ban Ki Moon)

Once again, the ex-secretary of the United Nations makes an appeal not only to women but also to men in order to eliminate gender violence from our societies.

54. Never offer your heart to someone who eats hearts, someone who thinks heart meat is delicious and not rare, someone who sucks the liquids drop by drop and who, with a bloody chin, smiles at you (Alice Walker)

This unpleasant and brutal phrase is still expressing the need not to surrender to a relationship in which one's own pain and suffering and the fact of keeping the person controlled and dominated is for another reason for pleasure and satisfaction.

55. Racial, gender, sexual and other forms of discrimination and violence cannot be eliminated without changing the culture (Charlotte Bunch)

In order for gender violence to disappear and to be prevented, it is necessary to act not only in cases where it is produces but also social and community: the population must be educated in equality and respect mutual.

56. Equality is a vital need of the human soul. The same amount of respect and attention is owed to every human being, because respect has no degrees (Simone Weil)

We are all equally worthy and admirable regardless of our gender, sex, skin color, sexual orientation, race, or beliefs.

57. One in three women may experience abuse or violence in her lifetime. This is an abominable violation of Human Rights, but it continues to be one of the most invisible and little-known pandemics of our times (Nicole Kidman)

Although there are more and more cases of complaints and greater awareness, the truth is that gender violence continues to be an issue that those who suffer from it (and those who practice it) tend to hide for a long time. It is usually an invisible problem until it becomes extremely evident, and sometimes it is not even seen as such by the victims.

58. Gender is between the ears and not between the legs (Chaz Bono)

This phrase helps make us see that men and women are equally capable of living our lives, gender being something that does not depend on the sexual apparatus we have.

59. My body is mine!

Women have frequently been reified as sexual objects, and in many cases of gender violence the perpetrator of this considered that it was within his right to dispose of the victim's body for his own sexual satisfaction regardless of the will of the other. No one has the right to dispose of the body, mind or sexuality of another person without their consent.

60. You can break my hand, but never my voice

A voice that encourages us to fight, to fight to change things and eradicate violence from our lives.

61. Our men believe that making money and giving orders are the basis of power. They do not believe that power is in the hands of a woman who takes care of everyone during the day and gives birth (Malala Yousafzai)

This young activist expresses with her phrase the need to value and not underestimate the importance of women regardless of their social or employment situation.

62. On the other side of the emergency phone there is not only the end of the abuse, there is the life you have stopped living

As this sentence from an awareness campaign indicates, asking for help is a fundamental step to get out of a situation of abuse and start living again.

63. Do not skip the signs. Choose to live (Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality)

This phrase comes from an awareness campaign broadcast on television in Spain, and expresses the need for the victim or the environment to become aware of the different signs (isolation, humiliation, comparisons, telephone control, economic control, use of children and the environment to harm them, insults, blows...) that a case of gender violence.

64. Women are the only exploited group in history that has been idealized to the point of impotence (Erica Jong)

In this case we are talking about a type of gender violence that does not include the couple but society: the tendency to think of women as a weak, fragile and incapable creature that causes them to be prejudged, used and little valued.

65. You think that if he doesn't love you then you are worthless. You think that if he no longer loves you he is right, you think that his opinion of you must be correct. You think if he dumps you it's because you're trash. You think that he belongs to you because you feel that you belong to him. No. "Belong" is a dirty word, especially when you use it with someone you love. Love shouldn't be like this (Toni Morrison)

Again in this sentence we see how the victims of gender violence They tend to have a very low opinion of themselves., an opinion that the aggressor himself usually generates and reinforces to keep her subdued and under her control.

This makes them think that they need the aggressor and that they owe it to them, that in fact they are lucky that this person is with them. them (a belief that is often also made explicit by the aggressor himself) or else they will be left alone and cannot be happy. These thoughts must be fought.

66. Gender violence is born from the darkest part of the human being and must not be hidden, suffered or covered up. You have to shout with courage and energy Enough is enough!!! (Zulama de la Cruz)

This pianist and composer shows us with her phrase the need to externalize, confront and combat gender violence.

67. If they hold you back, insult you, attack you, hit you or threaten you, don't be confused. That's not love.

Acts like the ones mentioned above will never be a gesture of love, no matter how much they try to disguise it as such.

68. My silence did not protect me. Your silence will not protect you (Audre Lorde)

This phrase is intended to push the person who suffers from gender violence to denounce her situation, to fight to change it. Keeping it quiet won't make the problem go away, it will only lengthen it.

69. Against gender violence, zero tolerance

A slogan typical of an advertising campaign to raise awareness among the population, expresses the need to take into account account the seriousness of the situation from the first moment and not tolerate any type of situation or action violent.

70. Why shut up if I was born screaming? (Faculty of Education of the University Campus of Soria)

This phrase expresses the need to make our voices heard against gender violence, to express the suffering and pain of those who suffer it and to express our rejection of this type of assaults.

71. No one asked me how my attacker dressed

Often many victims of sexual abuse and assault are questioned and blamed of the situation to the point of even questioning how they were dressed at that moment, in such a way that it seems to insinuate that the attack is their fault or responsibility. This causes great damage to the victim, who may not report or even believe that they are really responsible for what happened.

72. In any relationship you have, you do not deserve who does not love you and even less who hurts you (Walter Riso)

As in previous sentences, this author refers to the fact that whoever hurts us does not deserve us, something that without a doubt should lead us to move away from the aggressor.

73. Neither blows that hurt nor words that hurt

This phrase exemplifies two of the most common: the use of aggression and vexation as a method of subjugation of the victim of gender violence.

74. We are the cry of those who no longer have a voice

The demonstrations and marches that are organized allow us to reflect on a social level a reality that on a day-to-day basis most people do not take much into account and yet takes the lives of thousands of people every year.

75. Violence is not a force. It is the abuse of force (Michel Lancelot)

Phrase that includes all types of violence, indicates that violence is always an abuse that the aggressor makes of a power or type of relationship that it maintains over the other.

76. Fears are black and darken the horizons, hence it is necessary to be guided by experts (Raimunda de Peñafort)

One of the biggest reasons why many victims of gender violence do not report is fear. Fear of reprisals, of the future without the abuser, of the legal process that may follow, of possible loneliness or the reaction of the environment, among others. This fear can paralyze the victim, which is why it can be very helpful to ask for help from various types of of professionals (police, social services, legal and penal services, doctors, psychologists, workers social…)

77. The world is bigger than a clenched fist

A fairly clear sentence that expresses the need for the person who has been attacked to cease their relationship with his aggressor and can escape the violence, having a whole world to discover beyond the abuse.

78. Don't make deals with abuse

Abuse and gender violence must be eradicated, without tolerating them at any time or making concessions. It is common that after a specific violent act, the aggressor promises to change and that he will not do it again, but in most cases this is becomes a spiral of abuse, promises and relapses into abuse that does not end unless intervention is made or the victim decides to change the situation.

79. Don't give up, please don't give in. Even if the cold burns, even if fear bites, even if the sun hides and the wind stops, there is still fire in your soul, there is still life in your dreams (Mario Benedetti)

Although this poem is not written with gender violence in mind, it is applicable to this topic: many victims end up giving up and seeing change as impossible. That is why it is essential to remember that you should not give up and that there is always hope and a life after leaving the violence behind.

80. your fight is my fight

To culminate, we leave you with this short sentence in which the assaulted person is simply reminded that they are not alone, and that their struggle and suffering is everyone's.

81. I don't want to feel brave when I go out, I want to feel free

One of the most heard proclamations in the demonstrations against gender violence.

82. If they hold you back, insult, attack, hit or threaten you, don't be confused. That's not love"

Love has nothing to do with physical or psychological abuse.

83. Love is not the "host"

An ironic phrase that reminds us that violence has nothing to do with love.

84. You are not alone, report it, we are free!

Reporting is the best way to end a situation of abuse.

85. We want each other alive.

There are many women who fight daily for the freedom of those who suffer mistreatment.

86. love shouldn't hurt

Love can never be related to abuse or physical pain.

87. Feminism is hated because women are hated (Andrea Dworkin)

There is still a long way to go in the field of women's freedom.

88. Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women fear men will kill them (Margaret Atwood)

A very true and truly moving phrase about abuse.

89. I will not be a free woman while there are still subjected women (Audre Lorde)

Feminism fights for the freedom of all women.

90. The amount of clothing I wear does not determine the amount of respect I deserve.

Women deserve exactly the same respect as men regardless of their clothing.

91. You can break my hand, but never my voice

The voice of free women can never be silenced.

92. Break the silence. When you witness violence against women, don't sit idly by. Act (Ban Ki Moon)

The former UN Secretary General launched a program against gender violence.

93. This body is mine, it is not touched, it is not raped, it is not killed

One of the claims that best defines the fight of women against abuse.

94. Violence creates more social problems than it solves. (Martin Luther King)

Civil rights activist Martin Luther King joined many social demands during his lifetime.

95. The worst fight is the one that is not done (Karl Marx)

A very inspiring phrase that encourages all women in the world to claim their rights.

96. Our men believe that making money and giving orders are the basis of power. They do not believe that power is in the hands of a woman who takes care of everyone during the day and gives birth (Malala Yousafzai)

Women are the engine that moves the world economy and also those in charge of domestic care.

97. Silence is lethal in the mistreatment of women. Dare, be brave and denounce the aggressor

The best thing a battered woman can do is report it.

98. My body doesn't want your opinion

Society is increasingly aware that unwanted comments about a woman's body are also violence.

99. I am not a dog. Don't whistle at me!

Street harassment is also a form of violence against women.

100. A woman is not written in braille. You don't need to touch it to know it.

Women deserve to be treated with respect like any human being.

101. Those who do not move, do not notice their chains (Rosa Luxemburg)

One of the most famous phrases of the revolutionary Marxist leader Rosa Luxemburg.

102. The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, instead of recognizing who we are (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)

Gender has on many occasions delimited the freedom of women to do what they want.

103. We had two options: be silent and die or speak and die, and we decided to speak. (Malala Yousafzai)

Malala Yousafzai has become for several years one of the main references in the fight against gender violence.

104. When women begin to unlearn everything false that they have been led to believe, they merge into a cosmic embrace (Roy Galán)

There are many thoughts, conceptions and ideas that have allowed the systematic mistreatment of women.

105. I just want to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free (Rosa Parks)

Rosa Parks fought all her life against discrimination against blacks in the US and her fight has served as an example for many women around the world.

106. Feminism is a way of living individually and fighting collectively (Simone de Beauvoir)

One of the most famous phrases of the feminist thinker Simone de Beauvoir.

107. There is a huge industry that gets fat at the cost of making us feel bad about our bodies (Susie Orbach)

The aesthetic pressures to which many women in our society are conditioned are also part of sexist violence.

108. Romantic love is a castle with which women are enslaved (María Fornet)

Feminist psychologist María Fornet denounces the damage that romantic love does to some women.

109. Feminism allows us to separate suffering from love. Coral Herrera

More and more women understand that love and suffering have nothing to do with it.

110. What for men was considered "normal" in women was considered a deviation (Lisa Appignanesi)

A sample of the great injustices that women have suffered in their flesh for centuries.

111. Women are leading the movements in favor of the Earth (Yayo Herrero)

In a context of global crisis there are many just demands that are being made at the same time.

112. The woman's story has more to do with what she kept quiet than with what was said (Irene Muñoz)

Silence can prolong a situation of abuse, which is why it is important to report it as soon as possible.

113. I want a world in which it is not necessary to look like the model of man for our strength to be recognized. Sol Camarena

The feminist writer Sol Camarena tells us about the long road that still remains to be traveled for a woman to be recognized and respected just like a man.

114. When a man gives his opinion of her, he is a man. When a woman does it, he's a whore (Bette Davis)

The famous Hollywood actress Bette Davis was a great activist for women's rights.

115. No man backs down when a woman advances

One of the most famous quotes of the feminist movement.

116. The test to know if you can do a job or not, should not depend on the organization of your chromosomes (Bella Abzug)

No woman should be banned from doing any job.

117. It's funny: the history of male opposition to the emancipation of women is perhaps more revealing than the history of emancipation itself (Virginia Woolf)

The feminist writer made important contributions to the movement and her approaches are still valid.

118. All the misfortunes in the world come from the oblivion and contempt that until today has been made of the natural and essential rights of being a woman. (Flora Tristan)

The mistreatment of women has been a constant for centuries.

119. Society cannot in justice prohibit the honest exercise of their faculties to half of the human race. (Arenal Conception)

Women should have the same rights in any area of ​​daily life.

120. If we turn towards a larger reality, it is a woman who will have to show us the way. The hegemony of the male has come to an end. He has lost touch with the earth (Henry Miller)

In the new millennium women are going to have a preponderant role in all areas of public and private life.