To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

The supreme guide in life is knowledge.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.

Concepts of well-being for countries, for peoples and for individuals are changing. In such a world, to argue for rules that never change would be to deny the reality found in scientific knowledge and reasoned judgment.

Freedom and independence form my character.