A Quote by Arundhati Roy

...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

Arundhati Roy

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Arundhati Roy
Indian - Writer
Born: November 24, 1961

But remember that if the struggle were to resort to violence, it will lose vision, beauty and imagination. Most dangerous of all, it will marginalize and eventually victimize women. And a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

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