Ms. Magazine Cover: Battered Wives

"When this issue of Ms. was published, the phrases 'battered woman' and 'domestic violence' were just entering the language, and the women's movement was organizing the first shelters, and pressing for the first police responses and laws. Now, the frontier is realizing that domestic violence is the most reliable indicator of all violence – in the street or military violence against another country – because it normalizes the idea that violence is an inevitable or an acceptable way of solving conflict. Violence begins in the home, and it must end there."

- Gloria Steinem