The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that women's rights are the significant social movement of the 21st century, analogous to the civil rights movement of the 20th century.
Tina Brown's quote emphasizes the importance of women's rights in contemporary society, likening their struggle for equality to the civil rights movement that sought to dismantle systemic racism and advocate for the rights of marginalized communities in the previous century. It highlights that just as civil rights were pivotal in shaping societal norms and laws in the 20th century, the fight for women's rights is now critical in addressing gender inequalities and achieving true equality in the 21st century.
In practice
This quote can be used during a women's rights rally to emphasize the importance of gender equality.
It's one of the biggest fibs going that American newspapers are now being forced to give up their commitment to investigative reporting. Most of them gave up long ago as their greedy managements squeezed every cent out of the bottom line and turned their newsrooms into eunuchs.
Even as the whole world tries to hang on to its job, there is also this weird parallel sense - almost a covert longing - that the old corrupt structures on which that job depends needs to be, ought to be, swept away.
I think British journalists do well in America because the newspaper culture there is so strong - telling stories and presenting them readably is in their DNA. British newspapers get a terrible rap, but they are brilliant in their presentation, most of them, so full of vitality and literary wit.
One of the the great things about having had something that didn't work out is: So what? I am fine.
It felt like I was the only one who cared about the climate and the ecological crisis. My parents didn't care about it, my classmates didn't care about it, my relatives didn't care about this. I mean nobody I knew cared about this and I felt like I was the only one.
Welcome all experiences. You never know which one is gong to turn everything on.
When I was growing up, I felt like I had to qualify it and say I'm British-Pakistani. But now I kind of feel like, in this day in age, this is what British looks like. It looks like me; it looks like Idris Elba, and hopefully through Nasir Khan, people will see that that's what an American can look like as well.
Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done, full of tasks, claims, and demands; and let us see that we learn to take it without letting fall too much of what it has to bestow upon those who demand of it necessary, serious, and great things.
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