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.
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One of the the great things about having had something that didn't work out is: So what? I am fine.
Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.
In spite of all the talk and study about our next years, all the silent ponderings about what lies within them...it seems plain to us that many things are wrong in the present ones that can be, must be, changed. Our texture of belief has great holes in it. Our pattern lacks pieces.
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If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.
I went from being the Terminator to being the governator.
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