By and large, women in New Zealand are fortunate compared with some other countries, including many in our own region. But there is still progress to be made.
There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave.
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Charlotte Eriksson
Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
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Gilles Deleuze
There has to be new words to explain new worlds.
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Toba Beta
God's grace is not defined as God being forgiving to us even though we sin. Grace is when God is a source of wholeness, which makes up for my failings. My failings hurt me and others and even the planet, and God's grace to me...
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Nadia BolzWeber
The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
More Quotes By Jenny Shipley
Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.
Every second, every day, every year, we fail to address demand for reproductive health and family planning services. Lives are lost, and girls' opportunities to thrive and contribute to their country's development shrink. These are real people.
The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.
The serious problems facing the world today will never be solved until women are able to use their full potential on behalf of themselves, their families, and their global and local communities, as the World Bank and others have discovered.
NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.
