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"Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture."
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"Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity."

"In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques."

"Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual."

"The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world."

"What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?"

"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."

"Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture."

"Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture."
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"Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond."


"There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal."


"What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality."


"As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea."


"Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life."


"I'd make a comment at a meeting and nobody would even acknowledge me. Then some man would say the same thing and they'd all nod."
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