Charlotte Bunch Quotes

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• There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.
• Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.
• We know that priorities are amiss in the world when a man gets a military medal of honor for killing another man and a dishonorable…
• Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.
• America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.
• The beginning point at both conferences must be that everything is a woman's issue. That means racism in a woman's issue, just as is anti-Semitism,…
• Feminism is a transformational force, an individual and social force. It is a way of looking at the world-a questioning of power/domination issues, an affirmation…
• We have to start looking at the world through women's eyes' how are human rights, peace and development defined from the perspective of the lives…
• The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale.
• What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become…
• We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act ... It is often through taking action that we can…
• Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.
• We need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something.
• As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.
• Whether there are innately female leadership styles... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little…
• Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.
• I'd make a comment at a meeting and nobody would even acknowledge me. Then some man would say the same thing and they'd all nod.
• People learn to lead because they care about something.
• Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

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