“Because women’s liberation is a movement of the powerless for the powerless, its attraction is not immediately clear to the powerless, who feel they need alliance with the powerful to survive.”
“Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.”
“In the networking world, it’s not who you know, it’s who knows you.”
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”
“Character is doing the right thing when no-one is watching.”
“On March 19, 2004, President Bush asked: Who would prefer Saddam’s torture chambers still be open? Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam’s torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.”
“Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We’re not inherently anything but human.”
“Women and girls hardly ever fight the world’s wars, but they often suffer the most. Increasingly, they are the direct targets of fighting, when sexual violence is deliberately used as a tactic of warfare. And yet fewer than 10 percent of the people who negotiate peace deals are women, and only about three dozen individuals have been convicted and jailed by international war crimes tribunals for committing or commanding widespread sexual violence. Sexual violence in conflict is NOT inevitable. It can be stopped.”
“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
“Age measures life in years, but it’s the life in those years that contributes most..”