“Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.”

“What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.”

“As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.”

“The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale.”

“Knowing the self is the biggest truth. If we find the truth within, we have found God.”

“This above all: to thine own self be true.”

“What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.”

“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”

“I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myse...”