We know that priorities are amiss in the world when a man gets a military medal of honor for killing another man and a dishonorable discharge for loving one.

We have to start looking at the world through women's eyes' how are human rights, peace and development defined from the perspective of the lives of women? It's also important to look at the world from the perspective of the lives of diverse women, because there is not single women's view, any more than there is a single men's view.

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

If you think that you are where you are just because you worked hard, it is easy to become self-righteous and make classist moral judgments about others.