Quotes from Charlotte Bunch

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

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.

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.

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

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

Whether there are innately female leadership styles ... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history.

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

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.

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.

We know that priorities are amiss in the world when a man gets a military medal of honor for killing another man and a dishonorable discharge for loving one.

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.

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

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

Women are all vulnerable, and each of us is only as secure as those women that society puts on the "bottom," not as powerful as the token top.

Women's liberation has touched off a resurgence of the women's struggle by giving public visibility and common analysis to an uneasiness and hostility that many women feel, but that had been confined until now to the personal sphere and thereby dismissed. Women are responding because, as one sister put it, women's liberation is simply organized rage against real oppression.

The idea of just adding women to things as they are is not nearly as likely to excite people as the idea that society as a whole could be different. To believe that the degradation of sexism and racism, the violence in our lives that we have today is not inevitable moves people to action.

Heterosexual privilege is the method by which women are given a stake in male supremacy--and ... it is therefore the method by which women are given a stake in their own oppression.

The initial tenets of feminism have already been established--the idea that power is based on gender differences and that men's illegitimate power over women taints all aspects of society, for instance. But now we face the arduous task of systematically working through these ideas, fleshing them out and discovering new ones.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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