Your life belongs to you and you alone.

Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything.

It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.

This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.

The idea that sex is something a woman gives a man, and she loses something when she does that, which again for me is nonsense. I want us to raise girls differently where boys and girls start to see sexuality as something that they own, rather than something that a boy takes from a girl.

Stories matter. Many stories matter.

And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it.