Top 18 Charlotte Bunch Quotes
#1. 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, Palestinian homelessness, rural development, ecology, the persecution of lesbians, and the exploitative practices of global corporations.
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#2. We need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something.
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#3. People learn to lead because they care about something.
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#4. 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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#6. Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.
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#7. The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale.
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#8. 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.
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#9. As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.
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#10. We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act ... It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them.
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#11. 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.
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#12. Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.
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#13. Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.
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#14. 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 a reality.
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#15. America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.
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#16. 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 of women's energy.
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#17. 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.
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#18. If you think that you are where you are just because you worked hard, it is easy to become self-righteous and make classist moral judgments about others.
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