Seeing the world differently is one of the toughest incompatibilities to reconcile in a relationship.

Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don't think there's any sympathy.

Life is rife with frustrations, jealousies and, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of its injustices, but it's a big mistake to let such negative sentiments rule our lives and dictate choices.

With longer life spans and better health and education, many feel that giving birth to a baby a mere couple of decades after they themselves were in the cradle is a little premature.

As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes.

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

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.