The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won’t tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it. Patricia Ireland Read Quote
Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we’re not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes. Patricia Ireland Read Quote
I know that it isn’t just violence against women, it’s how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It’s a bigger picture. Patricia Ireland Read Quote
Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women’s lives in our entirety. Patricia Ireland Read Quote
Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we’re not going to change their minds. Patricia Ireland Read Quote
