Quotes by Charlotte Bunch

• America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.
• As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.
• Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.
• 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.
• Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.
• People learn to lead because they care about something.
• 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.
• 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.
• We need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something.
• 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.
• Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.