Kavita Ramdas Quotes

#1. Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or the colonizers - it's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions that we women, far too often, hold ourselves.

Kavita Ramdas

#2. This LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into harmony.

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#3. Middle -age is the time of life, that a man first notices - in his wife.

Richard Armour

#4. Nothing is more destructive than the gap between people's perceptions of their own day-to-day economic well-being and what politicians and statisticians are telling them about the economy

Nicolas Sarkozy

#5. It is common sense that when women are able to plan their pregnancies, populations grow more slowly and as a result so do greenhouse gas emissions. Providing access to contraception and preventative health should be one of the many effective strategies used to fight climate change.

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#6. People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances.

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#7. Insurrection is the last remedy, especially when the people have acquired the belief that peaceful means to secure the remedies for evils prove futile.

Marcelo H. Del Pilar

#8. A minute, an hour, a lifetime-- there is no time, there are no things. I have no more Things. I have only scraping metal, creaming voices, and death

David Arnold

#9. My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.

Victor Hugo

#10. With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men.

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#11. I work for the Global Fund for Women, an organization that is actively supporting women's rights groups in 160 countries around the world.

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#12. Love is your addiction to an eternal longing for someone ... A thirst which one cannot relinquish

Seema Gupta

#13. We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.

Kavita Ramdas

#14. Let us not pretend that we go into this war with clean hands. It is only while we cling to the consciousness that our hands are not clean that we retain the right to defend ourselves.

George Orwell

#15. A friend in deed is a friend indeed.

Ashok Kallarakkal

#16. Being a philanthropist doesn't mean necessarily writing a huge check. It can mean mobilizing your community to start asking questions.

Kavita Ramdas