Sally Armstrong (journalist)

Sally Armstrong (journalist) Sally Wishart Armstrong (born 1943) is a Canadian journalist, magazine editor, human rights activist, documentary filmmaker, and author of several books, including four bestsellers: Veiled Threat: The Hidden Power of the Women of Afghanistan (2002), The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor (2007), Bitter Roots, Tender Shoots: The Uncertain Fate of Afghanistan’s Women (2008), and Ascent of Women: A New Age Is Dawning for Every Mother’s Daughter (2013). She was made in 1998 an Officer of the Order of Canada. Quotes There's never been a better time in human history to be a woman. And despite the blowback from misguided politicians, leftover Chauvinism#Male chauvinism chauvinists, and hypetmasculine Misogyny misogynists, women are closer to gaining Gender equality equality than ever before. The journey ahead is bound to epic, and it will affect everything—our wallets, our jobs, our very future. Chapter One. In the Beginning(s) Power Shift: The Longest Revolution{ The CBC Massey Lectures House of Anansi 2019 9781487006808 https://books.google.com/books?id=JPOVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT8 (304 pages) There’s this extraordinary attitude that women should be second-class, put down, punished, not included. It is absolutely extraordinary to me. It doesn’t matter whether you are in South Sudan or Iraq, Afghanistan or China — it’s the same thing. as quoted by Stephania Varalli in: How Sally Armstrong went from phys-ed teacher to war correspondent: Top 25 Women of Influence Lifetime Achievement Award February 2, 2020 Women of Influence (womenofinfluence.ca) https://www.womenofinfluence.ca/2020/02/02/how-sally-armstrong-went-from-phys-ed-teacher-to-war-correspondent/ Women and girls have been on a perilous journaly of oppression and also wit and survival. THE PHOENIX IS YOU Sally Armstrong TEDxWesternU YouTube February 28, 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoFWGr3ki14&t=355s (quote at 5:55 of 12:28 in video) External links Category:1943 births Category:Living people Category:Editors from Canada Category:Women journalists from Canada Category:Non-fiction authors from Canada Category:Officers of the Order of Canada Category:People from Montreal Category:University of Toronto alumni Category:Women activists from Canada Category:Women authors from Canada Category:Women born in the 1940s