Charlotte Bunch Quotes

United States, Author
October 13, 1944

Charlotte Bunch (born October 13, 1944) is an American feminist author and organizer in women's rights and human rights movements. Bunch is currently the founding director and senior scholar at the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is also a distinguished professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers.

Also known as Activist

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.

Charlotte Bunch
- Life
- Political
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.

Charlotte Bunch
- Women

People learn to lead because they care about something.

Charlotte Bunch
- People
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.

Charlotte Bunch
- Women
- House
- Reality
We need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something.

Charlotte Bunch
- Women
- Vision
Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

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

Charlotte Bunch
- World
- Women
America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.

Charlotte Bunch
- America

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

Charlotte Bunch
- Good
- Women
- Violence
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.

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

Charlotte Bunch
- Life
- Lies