"Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?"

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Source : "Dem debaters target Bush", www.cnn.com. January 23, 2004.

Annie Lennox

#Empowerment Quotes #Feminism Quotes #Done Quotes

“I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.”
“In our minds lives the madonna image--the all-embracing, all- giving tranquil mother of a Raphael painting, one child at her breast, another at her feet; a woman fulfilled, one who asks nothing more than to nurture and nourish. This creature of fantasy, this myth, is the model--the unattainable ideal against which women measure, not only their performance, but their feelings about being mothers.”
“I haven't felt the way I feel today in so long.”
“We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.”
“A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.”
“Get on your bikes and ride!”
“continually measuring women's wants by men's achievements seems out of date, ignominious, and intolerably boring. ... Now that we have secured possession of the tools of citizenship, we intend to use them not to copy men's models but to produce our own.”

Source : Ray Strachey, Eleanor Florence Rathbone (1936). “Our freedom and its results”
“When failure is not an option, we can forget about creativity, learning, and innovation.”

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