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.'

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.

I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance, insecurity and what the world tells you is beautiful. For many black women, the idea of wearing their hair naturally is unbearable.

You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism.

Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.