“Even if someone has done something that is disrespectful or even harmful, if you are still harbouring negative emotions towards that person or in recollection of the memory, then you are continuing the process and extending the effect it’s having on you.”
“The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.”
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we had when we created them.”
“Peace, development and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?”
“There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our young people – one of these is roots, the other is wings.”
“Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment, of trusting your instincts, of taking yourself by surprise and snatching from the clutches of your well-organized routine a bit of unscheduled pleasure.”
“…there is no tool for development more effective than the education of girls.”
“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
“To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in the past.”
“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.”
