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“That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.”
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Joan Bakewell
“In the 1880s feminism - or ‘the women question’, as it was referred to then- concentrated on education. In the early twentieth century the single issue was the vote. But feminism isn’t a single issue anymore. It is the most fundamental shift in human consciousness since Darwin’s natural selection, the recalibration of humanity world- wide. It is a long slow process like the movement of the earth’s crust. Like the tectonic played it will buck and shudder. But it cannot come to an end. It cannot be written off. We are, after all, half the human race.”
Joan Bakewell

Elif Shafak
“as with some trees – you can’t help feeling that they must be much older than their chronological age? Where do you start someone’s story when every life has more than one thread and what we call birth is not the only beginning, nor is death exactly an end?”
Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“The best support Western feminists could give their global sisters (she said), was to listen first and speak later, following the lead of and partnering with local feminists, giving economic and other support from a position of ‘solidarity’ rather than ‘saving”
Sayantani DasGupta

Susie Orbach
“Feminism saved my life and it gave me life. Feminism joined our experiences together and made what might happen to any of us comprehensible. It allowed us to transform difficult and potentially destructive experiences into new forms of understanding and solidarity. It enabled us to create different institutions and collaborative ways of working, with how and where we loved. There wasn’t only individual failure or success per se but a sense of the inherent difficulties any one of us might encounter.
(Fifty Shades of Feminism)”
Susie Orbach

“But are women in power actually uncommon? I think not. The fact is we are everywhere and in every walk of life: there are thousands of us in law, medicine, business, education, the police, media, even in government. But it’s as if that fact has not penetrated into everyday consciousness: women in power are not regarded as ordinary. They are thought of as remarkable and not portraying the usual state of things. Is that why women shy from claiming their position?
(Fifty Shades of Feminism)”
Lennie Goodings

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