Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
Wangari MaathaiWe tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty and send children to school and provide health.
Wangari MaathaiIn Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.
Wangari MaathaiYou have to know yourself, and that once you know yourself, then you cannot be bound by - because sometimes we are bound by other people's thoughts, because we are not sure about ourselves. But once you know yourself... I guess it is really an expression of the biblical statements that the truth will make you free! When you know, then you are free, your mind is free.
Wangari Maathai