pg. 41.
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)
“Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.”
Discussion with Ela Bhatt, Founder, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)
“Empowerment is the ability to refine, improve, and enhance your life without co-dependency.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 130
2010s, 2014, U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit Spousal Program (August 2014)
Source: False Necessityː Anti-Necessitarian Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy (1987), p. 22
As quoted by Lisa Simeone, Evolution, Not Revolution: Son of the Late Shah Campaigns for Self-Determination in Iran http://www.npr.org/programs/watc/features/2002/jan/shah/020119.shah.html, NPR, Jan 19, 2002.
Interviews, 2001-2002
Opening Keynote Address at NGO Forum on Women, Beijing China (1995)
Context: For millennia women have dedicated themselves almost exclusively to the task of nurturing, protecting and caring for the young and the old, striving for the conditions of peace that favour life as a whole. To this can be added the fact that, to the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict. Now that we are gaining control of the primary historical role imposed on us of sustaining life in the context of the home and family, it is time to apply in the arena of the world the wisdom and experience thus gained in activities of peace over so many thousands of years. The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.
