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.

The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale.

The beginning point at both conferences must be that everything is a woman's issue. That means racism in a woman's issue, just as is anti-Semitism, Palestinian homelessness, rural development, ecology, the persecution of lesbians, and the exploitative practices of global corporations.

I'd make a comment at a meeting and nobody would even acknowledge me. Then some man would say the same thing and they'd all nod.

There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.

We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act ... It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them.

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.