I was told that when you hit forty men stop looking at you. It's true, until you slip on a mini-skirt.

It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.

The point of the feminist movement wasnt simply to set our underwear on fire and muscle into small spaces in the male-dominated workplace, but to create a world where the contribution of both sexes was equally valued and no ones worth was judged on their take-home salary.

From Mozambique to Chad, South Africa and Liberia, Sierra Leone to Burkina Faso, feminism is the buzzword for a generation of women determined to change the course of the future for themselves and their families.

In the city, I wake bolt upright in the small hours, convinced that intruders are marauding through our apartment despite Swiss bank-style security arrangements.

I was told that when you hit forty men stop looking at you. It's true, until you slip on a mini-skirt.

Too often we forget that an ideal partner is someone who enhances an already full existence.