Kavita Ramdas famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.
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Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or the colonizers - it's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions that we women, far too often, hold ourselves.
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People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances.
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This LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into harmony.
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Being a philanthropist doesn't mean necessarily writing a huge check. It can mean mobilizing your community to start asking questions.
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It is common sense that when women are able to plan their pregnancies, populations grow more slowly and as a result so do greenhouse gas emissions. Providing access to contraception and preventative health should be one of the many effective strategies used to fight climate change.
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No matter how strong a condom is, it won't protect you from a broken heart.
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How clear, how lovely bright, How beautiful to sight Those beams of morning play; How heaven laughs out with glee Where, like a bird set free, Up from the eastern sea Soars the delightful day. To-day I shall be strong, No more shall yield to wrong, Shall squander life no more; Days lost, I know not how, I shall retrieve them now; Now I shall keep the vow I never kept before. Ensanguining the skies How heavily it dies Into the west away; Past touch and sight and sound Not further to be found, How hopeless under ground Falls the remorseful day.
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Be very humble when you plan so that Krishna is happy with you.
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Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.
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If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go
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Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
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For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown
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Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.
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