Charlotte Bunch Quotes

"As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea."
- Charlotte Bunch
(Related: Women, Idea, Government, Effort, End, Rights, Human rights, Obligation, Violence)

"Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues."
- Charlotte Bunch
(Related: Women, Feminism, World)

"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
(Related: Man, Meeting)

"Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life."
- Charlotte Bunch
(Related: Life, Strength, Existence, Fact, Lies)

"People learn to lead because they care about something."
- Charlotte Bunch
(Related: People, Care)

"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
(Related: Women, Rights)

"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
(Related: Equality, Women, Architecture, Being, Reality)

"We need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something."
- Charlotte Bunch
(Related: Women, Vision, Leaders)

"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
(Related: Life)

"Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture."
- Charlotte Bunch
(Related: Culture, Discrimination, Gender, Violence)