Heroes for a Better World

Charlotte Bunch
(1944-)

American Founder of the Center for Women's Global Leadership
1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005
National Women's Hall of Fame

birthdate: October 13
birthplace:
Ashe County, North Carolina

QUOTES

"We have to start looking at the world through women's eyes. How are human rights, peace, and development defined from the perspective of the lives of women?"

“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 have to start looking at the world through women’s eyes’ how are human rights, peace and development defined from the perspective of the lives of women? It’s also important to look at the world from the perspective of the lives of diverse women, because there is not single women’s view, any more than there is a single men’s view.”

“We are asking people to understand that slavery still exists today; in fact, according to a recent New York Times article, if you count the number of women and children in bonded labor, domestic slavery or sexual slavery today, there are more slaves in the world than at any other time in history.”

“...lesbian and gay rights battles have been lost because opponents say, ‘They shouldn’t get special rights.’ But these ‘special rights’ are just access to the same rights everybody has. That language is used to mean that whenever any group advocates for itself, it’s somehow a special plea over and against other groups. That has been a very effective manipulation of language, and we have to counter that manipulation.”

“We want people to realize that much of the rape in the world today is a form of terrorism; it is used as a method of keeping women of the street, out of the bars, out of the factories, or anywhere else men don’t want women to go. It is used as a way of keeping women in their place.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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.”

“People learn to lead because they care about something.”

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

 


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