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From Simone de Beauvoir to Malala Yousafzai, women around the world have inspired the fight for equality with their actions and also with their words.
Within the framework of International Women's Day, we review some of the reflections that accompany those who work every day to ensure that the place where a person is born, their race and gender do not determine (or limit) what opportunities they will have in life.
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"Education is a power for women, and that is why terrorists are afraid of education"
Malala Yousafzai
For a long time, Malala Yousafzai denounced the situation experienced by women under the rule of the Taliban and fought for the education of girls in Pakistan through a blog in which she wrote under a pseudonym.
Today, Malala, who won the Nobel Peace Prize at just 17 years old, is a universal symbol in the fight for education, a right that many women are still deprived of, especially in times of pandemic.
"There are few weapons in the world as powerful as a girl with a book in her hand," says Malala.
What is feminism, what does it defend and why is it not comparable (in any way) to machismo?
"Men, gender equality is your problem too"
Emma Watson
Most of us knew her as Hermione Granger, Harry Potter's brilliant, brave and loyal friend without whom he could not have succeeded.
The British actress Emma Watson, UN Women Goodwill Ambassador, is a reference in the fight for women's rights.
"The more I've talked about feminism, the more I've realized that fighting for women's rights has too often become synonymous with hating men. If there's one thing I'm sure of, it's that this "it cannot continue like this," she said before the UN in 2014. The actress also insisted on how the problem of gender equality is also a men's problem.
You can read the speech here.
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"Women, first of all, want to live without fear"
Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende, who recently defined feminism as an "irreversible" revolution, has spoken forcefully about how violence against women operates.
"There is an undeclared war against the female gender. We live in a patriarchy. This patriarchy has worsened for millennia. What is patriarchy? It is a system of economic, cultural, religious, social oppression that gives dominance to the male gender, not to everything, but to a part of the male gender," he said in 2020 in an interview with Longobardi.
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"Power is not given to you, you have to take it"
Beyonce
Beyoncé, who made her own way in the world of music and entertainment, has directly denounced racism in the United States through her words and songs, and calls on young people to empower themselves.
"If you are part of a group called 'others', a group that does not have the opportunity to be the protagonist on stage, build your own stage and make yourself seen," was part of the message he gave last year to the generation of 2020.
"A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men"
Gloria Steinem
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Since the 1960s, Gloria Steinem has fought, through her work as a journalist and her activism, for women's rights.
From co-founding the first magazine run by women to promoting the Equal Rights Amendment, her life is full of milestones that have been examples for the fight for equality, and she has sought to teach that feminism is not just a thing of women.
"You are not born a woman, you become one"
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Simone de Beauvoir
In 1949, Simone de Beauvoir published "The Second Sex", a work that became a classic of feminist literature, in which she reflected on the role of women in history and the myth of the "eternal feminine."
"If we only see men presiding over companies, it will begin to seem 'natural' that there are only men presidents of companies"
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Last year, the Fortune 500 included 39 women CEOs, a record number that actually represents only 7.8% of the total.
In
We Should All Be Feminists
, the writer presents her vision of feminism based on her own experience in her native Nigeria and in the United States.
"No one is too small to make an impact and change the world, so do everything you can"
Greta Thunberg
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Greta Thunberg began her fight against climate change in Sweden and has since become a reference who has not hesitated to tell world leaders, to their faces, that they must take charge and act to combat one of the main threats they face. our planet.
"My mother would look at me and say, 'Kamala, you can be the first to do a lot of things, but make sure you're not the last.'"
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris made history by becoming the first female, black, and South Asian American vice president.
After Joe Biden and Harris' victory was announced in November, she made it clear in her speech that she would be the first woman to hold the office, "but not the last."
In her message she recognized "the women who fought and sacrificed so much for equality, freedom and justice for all, including black women, who are too often overlooked, but who often prove to be the backbone of our democracy."
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"Fight for the things that matter to you, but do it in a way that leads others to join you"
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg fought, first as a lawyer and then from her position as a justice on the United States Supreme Court, for equality.
"My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant being your own person, being independent," said Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who went down in history for the positions she defended not only regarding women, but in issues such as immigration, same-sex marriage, voting rights, health care, and affirmative action.
Editor's note:
This article was originally published in 2022.
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