You cannot say you've achieved equality until EVERYONE is equal and has equal opportunities!

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.

Don't wait for a Gandhi, don't wait for a King, don't wait for a Mandela. You are your own Mandela, you are your own Gandhi, you are your own King.

Men are the ones who often juggle back and forth for power. It is the women who bring humanity to the table - an understanding that beyond the jobs that men are fighting for, there are people out there really waiting for you to do something for life to go on. The only way all of this can happen effectively is if women are at the table as active participants, not as silent observers.

When women gather, great things will happen.

Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same.

It is so difficult to do any work nonviolently if you don't have the constant awareness of someone who is greater than you are - someone greater who will not just fight for you but who is there to console you.