Category: Quotes

“Now, when I look back [on the work of the WOI], it seems to me that our main mistake was not that we did not do other things which we should have done. Our main mistake was that we created conditions in which the contradictions related to modernity, progress, equality, and human rights, especially women’s…

“The conditions women have in common outrank and outvalue those that set them apart.” – Faith and Freedom

“Women’s status in society has become the standard by which humanity’s progress toward civility and peace can be measured.” – Architects for Peace

“Once we accept the possibility that we can learn and decide together, we will be on our way to a significantly different and more productive interrelationship creating a far better future.” – Leading to Choices: A Leadership Training Handbook for Women

“To play their role properly, women everywhere must become far more involved in the affairs of their respective societies. Women must become empowered.” Leading to Choices: A Leadership Training Handbook for Women

“We must change the meaning of success by turning hierarchical relations into communicative relations – leadership by command into leadership by sharing and consensus.” – Rights of Passage

“For most of the Third World the experience of colonialism led the dialectic of encounter to an intellectual impasse by positing the ‘other’ as the enemy. As so much of the ‘other’ is appropriated in the developmental process, the enemy steals within and the impasse, intellectual and political at first, becomes a pathology of self-denial.…

“Many women now realize that their problem is not simply how to contend with men, but also how to re-imagine and help reconstruct a social order that has entrapped both men and women.” – Leading To Choices