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"The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence."
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"I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it."
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"To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula."
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"People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic."
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"The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce."
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"Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating."
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"In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news."
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"Among seniors, Social Security is the sole source of income for 26 percent of nonmarried women."
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"It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes."
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"I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia."
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"I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud."
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"It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity."
Nation
"The Pacific had great hope that when the former President Mitered decided to halt nuclear testing, we had put behind us the issue of nuclear states testing their weapons in our Pacific region."
Hope
"I can't for the life of me see that by being permissive you actually assist anyone."
Life
"Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it."
Peace
"The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us to make final decisions until 2002."
Life
"New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years."
Decision-Making
"Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisal processes of the United Nations was essential if the organization was to effectively serve women's interests."
Woman
"The serious problems facing the world today will never be solved until women are able to use their full potential on behalf of themselves, their families, and their global and local communities, as the World Bank and others have discovered."
Woman
"Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change."
Change
"Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively."
Action
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