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As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.


Charlotte Bunch

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CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I'm really getting into acting and TV. 'Sports Illustrated' is a big, iconic brand I'...
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I can feel so bad about myself, especially if I start to pay attention to the kinds of stupid commen...
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I wanted to be something and prove to girls in high school, and to my mum and dad, that I could be r...
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I've had such a hard time with dyslexia my whole life. When I was a child, I didn't learn to...
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I admire her so much, but I'm not the next Kate Upton.
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I work out really hard, and I stay on my diet all week.
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY Don't be afraid to go up to the hot girl on the beach.
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I can really stir up a conversation. Every time I go to a meeting or a casting, I try to make it as ...
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I'm only 5 ft. 7 in. tall, and for modelling, that's small, so I wasn't getting signed, ...
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I'm really into fitness, so my hobbies are yoga, Pilates, and working out.
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY You'll always find me at a good sushi spot. Once, at a restaurant, a cook came out from the kitc...
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I'm embracing what I have. I'm a curvier bombshell with big boobs. I'm not high-fashion....
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I love fitness, yoga. I love fashion. On the weekends, I try to relax. I have pretty crazy weeks. I ...
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY Whenever people talk about dyslexia, it's important to know that some of the smartest people in ...
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I'm not interested in just being the hot girl. I'm really goofy, and I love laughing, and th...
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Who has words at the right moment?
CHARLOTTE BRONTE There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and th...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Let your performance do the thinking.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter -...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impr...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Do...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never be...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, th...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Better to be without logic than without feeling.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE When one must, one can.
CHARLOTTE WHITTON I thought that if I owned nothing, had nothing, was nothing, I would have nothing left to lose, and ...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON 5.57am and I’m finishing the last poem to the taste of the last cigarette. Smoke in my lungs, poet...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I never have time to write anymore. And when I do I only write about how I never have time. It's wor...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON You smoked another cigarette and we shared another coffee and it was just another morning that made ...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON ... so this is for us.
This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and love
and...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I remember my father saying to me once, 'I finally know how to describe you, Charlotte. You'...
CHARLOTTE RAMPLING It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unneces...
CHARLOTTE KASL You were
water to me
deep and bold and fathoming' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte...
CHARLOTTE MEW I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,
like I always thought I would.
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON