Kavita Ramdas Quotes

India, Educator
1962

Kavita Ramdas (born 1962 or 1963) is senior advisor to the Ford Foundation's president, Darren Walker. She assumed the position in 2015 after serving for 3 years as Ford's India country representative, representing the office in India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.

With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men.

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- Men
- Women
- Powerful
I work for the Global Fund for Women, an organization that is actively supporting women's rights groups in 160 countries around the world.

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- World
- Work
- Women

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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- Women
- Struggle
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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- People
- Help
- Compassion