Charlotte Bunch
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"Charlotte Bunch" is an American activist, author and organizer in women's and human rights movements.

A Board of Governor's Distinguished Service Professor in Women's and Gender Studies, Bunch founded Washington D.C. publications Women's Liberation and Quest: A Feminist Quarterly.

In 1989, she founded the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Douglass College, Rutgers University, of which she remains the Founding Director and Senior Scholar. She was succeeded as Executive Director by Radhika Balakrishnan in September 2009.

CWGL lobbied the United Nations and the international community to view women's rights as a human rights issue. CWGL is a component of the Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) Campaign, working towards the establishment of a new United Nations Gender Entity that really works for equality for all of the world's women. Bunch has been a major voice for this campaign. The gender entity was finally created after four years of advocacy on July 2, 2010, and deemed UN Women.

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Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

Whether there are innately female leadership styles... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history.

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

The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale.

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.

America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.

They turned me into a feminist because I was so frustrated. I'm grateful to them.

You can't just add women and stir.