Charlotte Bunch Quotes

I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central.

I was very, very pro-women many years ago.

There are no such things as women's issues! All issues are women's issues.

No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.

I know a lot of the work that paved the way for women happened before I was around... I was never that feminist girl demanding equality, but maybe that's because I've never really faced inequality.

I deplore the shying away that can go on, within women, from the term 'feminist.' I am, absolutely, all about being a feminist.

I think we've come a long way with women's rights, but we've got a long way to go.

We need to stop refighting 40-year old battles on women's rights.

I HAVE REALIZED THAT FIGHTING FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS HAS TOO OFTEN BECOME SYNONYMOUS WITH MAN-HATING. IF THERE IS ONE THING I KNOW FOR CERTAIN, IT IS THAT THIS HAS TO STOP.

If you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist.

One of the most disturbing things I heard was that women's issues weren't "hot." Which is so ironic, because women are constantly being judged on some "hot" level. The conversation is not hot enough for them to do anything about. We have to make it hot, make them feel the fire. Until then, a lot of them aren't going to do anything.

I'm a huge supporter of women. What I'm not is a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose. Feminism has led women astray. I love the women's movement — especially when walking behind it.

You know, I hear all these things about women's rights.

We respect women and don't insult them by saying all they care about is reproductive rights. All issues are women's issues.

society, while willing to make room for women, is not willing to make changes for them.

A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some headway towards equality, a seemingly inevitable early frost to the brief flowerings of feminism.

I think I was a feminist before the word was invented.

Woman's cause is one and universal.

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

I think we should all call ourselves feminists.

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.

Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights.

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?