The condition of women in a nation is the real measure of its progress.
“Does rough weather choose men over women? Does the sun beat on men, leaving women nice and cool?' Nyawira asked rather sharply. 'Women bear the brunt of poverty. What choices does a woman have in l...”
“Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa's souls from the continent to the four corners of the wind? How could Europe lord it over a continent ten times its size? Why does needy Afric...”
“I've often observed that women can be the weakest link in women's rights.”
“I can hear the roar of women's silence”
“People have a greater tolerance for evil than for violence. If crooked gamboling, thieving and robing are covered over folks will tolerate it longer than out right violence, even when the violence ...”
“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”
“When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women”
“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”