Women are the face of hunger. Hunger has a female face. It affects women disproportionately, and therefore it affects children as well, and it gets passed on inter-generationally, too.
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For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.
I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women. You can see that clearly with things like 'The Hunger Games.'
Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.
Hunger in America is an American problem. The hunger of one should be the concern of all. Especially the hunger of children - our children.
As women, we understand our bodies, and there's a blossoming that occurs. We're hungry for gourmet meals instead of the fast food. We bring to life a more expansive understanding of life, ourselves, and others. We are more generous and assertive.
The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.
The issue I have always felt most strongly about is hunger in America, in particular the children.
In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men.
Women are the sustaining force of any society - they think of the children and the next generation's chances.
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