[nukkad] Inspiring Quotes For Indian Women ...

["Samira Razdan" <>]

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To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious. 
-Samuel Butler, poet (1612-1680)
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Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities.
She has the right to participate in very minutest detail in the
activities of man and she has an equal right of freedom and liberty
with him.                                  -- M K Gandhi, 1933

When Professor Amartya Sen took up issues of women's welfare, he was
accused in India of voicing "foreign concerns." "I was told Indian
women don't think like that about equality. But I would like to argue
that if they don't think like that they should be given a real
opportunity to think like that."           -- Professor Amartya Sen
                     Nobel Laureate 1998 in "The Unheeded Conscience"

Hunger is not just malnutrition. Hunger is rape, molestation,
alcoholism, dowry, female infanticide and foetacide.
                                          -- Mohini Giri
               Former head of the National Commission for Women, India

We must remember that unless and until women are given their rightful
place, no society or country can progress.
                                          -- Prime Minister IK Gujral
                                             On Occasion of India 50

However much a mother may love her children, it is all but impossible
for her to provide high-quality child care if she herself is poor and
oppressed, illiterate and uninformed, anaemic and unhealthy, has five
or six other children, lives in a slum or shanty, has neither clean
water nor safe sanitation, and if she is without the necessary support
either from health services, or from her society, or from the father
of her childen.
                                          -- V. Ramalingaswami
                                             "The Asian Enigma"

The women who participate in and lead ecology movements in countries
like India are not speaking merely as victims. Their voices are the
voices of liberation and transformation. The women’s and ecology
movements are therefore one, and are primarily counter-trends to a
patriarchal maldevelopment.
                                          -- Vandana Shiva
                                             Activist

Source: http://www.meadev.gov.in








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