She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself.

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

I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.

About 52% of the world's population is female. But most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. The late Kenyan Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai put it simply and well when she said 'The higher you go, the fewer women there are.'

Because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye … I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate, whose kinky hair could not form ponytails, could also exist in literature.

The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?

She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself.