Believing Quotes

“Early suffragists saw the vote as key to all women’s personal as well as political autonomy. But a hundred years of women’s suffrage has shown that gaining the right to vote or run for office will not be enough as long as we’re threatened with emotional, physical, economic or sexual abuse af work, at school or in our own homes.”
― Anita Hill, Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence

“If we are going to persuade victims to come forward, we must rethink how manhood and womanhood are defined and how both definitions create unrealistic and unsafe demands on our behavior, starting when we’re children.”
― Anita Hill, Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence

“In part, effectively raising our voices means returning to a basic question that clearly has not been adequately answered: What is our vision for gender justice? There is no one-size-fits-all solution or single administration that will put in place instant reform. But a concept of universal equality that considers how victim’s race, sexual identity, politics, and wealth (or pack thereof), among other things, combine to complicate their experience with gender-based violence should shape our vision.”
― Anita Hill, Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence

“In order to find victim-centered solutions to gender-based violence, we will need to address racism, including the vestiges of colonialism and slavery, along with homophobia, misogyny and gender bias.”
― Anita Hill, Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence