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"One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behaviour generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn't have a pandemic."
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"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
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Personal Development
"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."
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"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."
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"Every woman is just a different kind of problem."
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"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"
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"An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity."
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"A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me."
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"I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer."
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"Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation."
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"All I know is that every time I go to Africa, I am shaken to my core."
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"I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front."
World
"I was working for the Socialist International, after I left university in 1959, as a researcher."
Politics
"One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behaviour generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn't have a pandemic."
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"The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground."
Nation
"The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease."
Gender
"Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men."
Man
"I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel."
Travel
"Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic."
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"I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level."
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