The empowerment of girls and women is an essential tool to preventing the HIV/AIDS emergency from exploding any further

I was always told I was special. And I was also assured that I had a gift and a purpose.

It is better to begin in the evening than not at all.

I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset.

When I allow myself to feel all my feelings instead of numbing myself to them, they pass more quickly. I spent my entire life telling everyone I was "OK, damn it." But when you surrender to the [uncomfortable] feelings, there are gifts on the other side: Allowing yourself to feel loneliness forces you to reach out. Letting yourself get angry gives you strength, energy and motivation.

The Conversation about women’s bodies exists largely outside of us, while it is also directed at and marketed to us, and used to define and control us. The Conversation about women happens everywhere, publicly and privately. We are described and detailed, our faces and bodies analyzed and picked apart, our worth ascertained and ascribed based on the reduction of personhood to simple physical objectification. Our voices, our personhood, our potential, and our accomplishments are regularly minimized and muted.

Yeah, I've had the privilege to know a lot of really talented people.