"More than a billion women around the world want to emulate western women’s lifestyles and are rapidly acquiring the material ability to do so. It is therefore vital that in our leadership we display some reserve and responsibility in our spending so that the world’s finite resources will be available for our children, their children and their children’s children."
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Louise Burfitt-Dons, Speech on Hot Women Campaign given at UK Aware circa 2008.
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