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 chauvinists, and hypetmasculine misogynists, women are closer to gaining 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. ISBN 9781487006808.  (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. Women of Influence (womenofinfluence.ca) (February 2, 2020).

• Women and girls have been on a perilous journaly of oppression and also wit and survival.
  • (February 28, 2024) "THE PHOENIX IS YOU | Sally Armstrong | TEDxWesternU". YouTube. (quote at 5:55 of 12:28 in video)

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Sally Armstrong (journalist) on Wikipedia