“From the first meeting with them, I felt a hope that I had not felt before. In the one-on-one sessions, I found people who could understand what I was feeling. In the group meetings, I met other women, young and old, attractive, intelligent and caring who expressed the same things that I was feeling. I cried, suffered, talked and listened as others did the same and finally started to understand that just as we women shared a lot of the same experiences, the men also shared all the same traits of anger and oppression. “

-Stopping the Violence program participant