Charlotte Bunch Quotes

• 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

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  Tags in Same, Nobody, Meeting

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

  Charlotte Bunch

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  Tags in Women, Human, Violence

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

  Charlotte Bunch

  Topics in America

  Tags in Unfaithful, Promises

• Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women’s issues.

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  Tags in Women, Issues

• People learn to lead because they care about something.

  Charlotte Bunch

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  Tags in Care, Learn, Something

• S*exual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

  Charlotte Bunch

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  Tags in Without, Violence, Culture

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

  Charlotte Bunch

  Topics in Challenge

  Tags in Strength, Fact, Lies

• 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

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  Tags in Person, Political, Personal

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

  Charlotte Bunch

  Topics in Vision

  Tags in Women, Need

• 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

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  Tags in Women, Reality, Need

• 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

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  Tags in Equality, Women

Charlotte Bunch (11)

Birth:	13th October, 1944
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Author

About

Charlotte Bunch was born in North Carolina. She is an American activist, author and organizer in women's and human rights movements. She is the author of several books and articles. In 1989, she founded the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Douglass College, Rutgers University, of which she remains the Founding Director and Senior Scholar.

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