Charlotte Bunch Quotes

#1. Love and Politics should be on the reading list of all activists and academics seeking to understand how feminist theory gives perspective and power to strategy and action. Charlotte Bunch, author of Passionate Politics: Feminist Theory in Action

Carol Anne Douglas

#2. I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but that's not the case. Sure, my parents were generous; I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.

Kim Kardashian

#3. 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.

Charlotte Bunch

#4. 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.

Charlotte Bunch

#5. But I must never forget how blessed I have been. God has given me gifts and happiness, beyond any of my simple desires. My deepest desire now is to simply live ... So with hope and determination, I'd hold on and go on.

Farrah Fawcett

#6. 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.

Charlotte Bunch

#7. Sometimes people can hunger for more than bread.
It is possible that our children, our husband, our wife, do not hunger for bread, do not need clothes, do not lack a house. But are we equally sure that none of them feels alone, abandoned, neglected, needing some affection? That, too, is poverty

Mother Teresa

#8. America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.

Charlotte Bunch

#9. 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.

Charlotte Bunch

#10. Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.

Charlotte Bunch

#11. Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

Charlotte Bunch

#12. I cannot afford to get upset, to leave this room with puffy eyes and a red nose. Crying is not an option.

Suzanne Collins

#13. 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.

Charlotte Bunch

#14. Rumi says, 'Meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.' With awareness, know which emotions are in the house, and why they're there, and never forget who you are when the guests leave.

Ian Lawton

#15. Perhaps marketing is about to transition to a new kind of profession, one that requires insight, dedication and smarts.

Seth Godin

#16. My son is an integral part of my life; the fact of life is that parents and children need you; wife doesn't really need you.

Sonu Nigam

#17. Servers make very little in regular wages and largely rely on tips to pay the bills and budget for weeks ahead.

Kevin McCarthy

#18. 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.

Charlotte Bunch

#19. Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started 'Wine Library TV.' They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I always knew I was one of the biggest producers of new wine drinkers in the world, and people are realizing it now.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#20. Actually last night my married lover appeared wearing suspenders and a darling little angora crop top told me he was gay a sex addict a narcotic addict a commitment phobic and beat me up with a dildo.

Helen Fielding

#21. Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach.

Chris Van Hollen

#22. As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

Charlotte Bunch

#23. 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.

Charlotte Bunch

#24. The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale.

Charlotte Bunch

#25. Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

Charlotte Bunch

#26. There is no issue that is not a women's issue.

Charlotte Bunch

#27. 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.

Charlotte Bunch

#28. People learn to lead because they care about something.

Charlotte Bunch

#29. We need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something.

Charlotte Bunch

#30. 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.

Charlotte Bunch

#31. It was outrageous that [Donald Trump] would be advocating [that] women who exercise their constitutional right and have autonomy over their healthcare decisions would be criminals, along with the doctors that served them. He did try to walk it back - I think pretty unconvincingly.

Hillary Clinton