The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.

When you say something in a wrong group - it will never be right, so you can not say anything wrong, when you don't belong to a group.

What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?

Crime is not the problem of the victim, the victim didn't create the crime.

A different world can be created or re-created-but not until we stop enshrining the economic values of invisible labor, infinite and obsessive growth, and a slow environmental suicide.

Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.

It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).