The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

I feel such a sense of empowerment being a mom. But I do wonder: How do they/we do it all?

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

Autonomy leads to empowerment. We work hard to maintain a balance between collaboration and cooperation and independence.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can.

In life, there is no real safety except for self-belief.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

We all have the power to create change. We just have to choose to use it.

Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.

Understanding languages and other cultures builds bridges.

If you hate difference, you’ll be bored to death.

As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free.

There is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

We must recognize that freedom is not license, that liberty is not the right to do as we please.