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Women account for about 70% of Africa's food production and manage a large proportion of small enterprises. They are also increasingly represented in legislative and executive leadership positions. ”
This is about systemic, institutional corruption, not personality. To ask the Democratic leadership to clean things up would be like asking the old Soviet bureaucracy under Brezhnev to reform itself. It ain't going to happen. ”
Gender is more of a continuum than we are willing to admit when we hit the restroom. ”
Although I often find that the feminist rhetoric - not feminism - can come across as simple-minded, self-regarding, nuance-averse and reductive - biology to physiology, history to psychology, procreation to gynecology, and so on - I have come to realize that we should all be feminists. ”
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. ”
We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination. ”
I was raised by women. ”
I really don't care what people say. It's amazing that feminism continues to exist at all, considering how much counter-feminism is out there. ”
I was ahead of the gender curve, but I wasn't ahead of the intersectionality curve, and I get it now. It's important to me. ”
I've been speaking out about harassment and gender disparity for years. ”