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1995/09/13 Shri Mataji's Address at the United Nations 4th World Conference on Women
Title of Conference: Women Speak Out on Peace
Brothers and Sisters of the World,
It is a great honour for me to talk about global problems of women in front of
this distinguished assembly. First of all I would like to offer my profound
gratitude to the government and the people of our host country, the People's
Republic of China. I have had the privilege of visiting China on two previous
occasions and I am a great admirer of the wisdom and culture of this great
nation that I have visited.
This is, beyond my imagination, the most glorious time in the history of the
world that at this time we are so much aware of the problems of women. Women as
a whole have definitely suffered over the ages because we have not realised what
their importance is and what their proper role is in human society. Society
itself, which is her creation, tries to control or put down the
womanhood. In the East, we can say, that due to fundamentalist influence women
have been under great pressure and their morality is based on fear rather than
freedom. In the West they have fought for their freedom, but what they have
attained is spurious freedom. The women in the West have the freedom to abandon
all social and moral values. Thus in the East, we can say, that most of the
women are timid, oppressed and cannot express themselves, while in the West we
find most of the women are reduced to a sex symbol.
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