"Time has changed. Women are out there working, technology has changed, and everyone has the brains to do something, now it’s not about how much bicep or how much energy you have."

"You can’t live life being scared an in fear of anything. If something is bound to happen, you can’t stop it."

"I had to go for it. Even though it looked like a long shot, it was my only shot – that’s how I saw it so I went for it, and here I am."

"Before you wouldn't find women driving taxis here, and now you see it. There are men who cook now in Rwanda, when, in an African culture, women have to cook. So I think eventually things change. If you really work hard and you prove that you can do something well, I don't think there's a question of you being a woman, it doesn't come into the equation."

"It has moulded my character as a pilot, and I think what happened to my dad makes me a little more safe. It could have stopped me, but an accident is an accident. If someone is knocked over in a car you don't stop driving. As a pastor's child I know that you have to let stuff go."

"Everything starts with a dream."

"I feel like even though there’s just that one person, there’s a thousand more that are excited and are happy about where the world is going for women."

"I love the adventure,” she says. “Every day is different. I would wake up today and even though I’m going to the same destination I was going to yesterday, something is going to be different. That’s what I enjoy about my job: Every day brings its own uniqueness."

"You know what? I’m going to fly,” she said, “and that’s what motivated me my entire life, that idea I had as a young child."

"I want the girls to be successful," she said, "Not necessarily to choose to become pilots but to become confident young women who can contribute to society, our economy and give back to our communities."

"Rwanda has not taken funds from Europe or any other country to accommodate the refugees."

"We believe that we must refuse to let the words “never again” continue to be void of meaning because, as President Clinton stated in his 1998 address to Rwanda, “We must and we owe it to those who have died, and to those who survived who loved them, our every effort to increase our vigilance and strengthen our stand against those who commit such atrocities.”"

"This willingness to stand up and fight for what we believe in must be the hallmark of the student progressive community"

"Taking action tells the world every human life is worth something."

"Good fixer can make the difference between a hellish assignment and a successful and enjoyable one."

"Education is really encouraged for men and women. I think you can call that out as an injustice. But it is arrogant to make an assumption that wearing a headscarf is an injustice."

"The goal is to look polished and put together. And the goal is to have my appearance not be a distraction one way or the other."

"Bearing witness to trauma can be traumatic in and of itself. There can be the risk of losing loved ones, losing colleagues, watching people die, watching children being injured or killed."

"It’s a tragedy. I didn’t know her personally, but of course, I know of her. I can’t say that journalism has become more dangerous, although I will say that more and more of my colleagues and friends have lost their lives covering conflicts."

"You just realize there isn't a huge amount of space or time in their life, at this stage, in these rural areas to worry about much else. And they kind of are in acceptance of their sort of standing in the world."

"When you go into the cities or you talk to people who are more educated ... those women are on the verge potentially of losing everything, and their stories will rip your heart out in ways you can't imagine."

"This was a moment where there was no veneer of respectability or politeness. It was push and shove and scrape and push to get in there and get out safely."

"Fear is closely intertwined with panic, and panic in a war zone can get you into really, really deep trouble."

"What you learn over time is not to try and eliminate fear: It’s there for a good reason. But you have to learn to control it, to lean into it and to ensure that the rational brain is the one calling the shots and making the decisions and trying to get yourself and your crew out safely after, ideally, you’ve done the job that you came there to do."

"Sometimes I wanted the call to end, not because I don't want to look at my beautiful children, but because it does become so painful at a certain point."

"How many times I had been reminded that people are people, that there is a shared human experience, no matter how different our societies, that connects us."

"I had seen so many cities leveled, so many people killed, and yet so little really changed. That didn’t mean that some wars weren’t worth fighting. It just meant that the goals needed to be more specific and perhaps less idealistic, grounded in the reality of how parts of the world see us and not just the ideal of how we see ourselves."

"Facebook is not interested in making significant changes to improve kids' safety on their platforms, at least not when that would result in losing eyeballs on posts or decreasing their ad revenues."

"Big Tech now faces the Big Tobacco jaw-dropping moment of truth."

"Children of America are hooked on their product. There is cynical knowledge on behalf of these Big Tech companies that this is true."

"The damage to self-interest and self-worth inflicted by Facebook today will haunt a generation."

"Women should be ambitious because there is not a single job that a man can do that we can’t."

"No one will respect you just because you are well dressed but almost everyone will respect you if you are knowledgeable and are able to challenge people based on facts."

"To my colleagues out there, the sky is the limit"

"As I am heading towards the retirement age I am planning to establish a consultancy firm that will give service to both the government and international agencies because even today I can see that is needed"

"I spend some time with my children and whenever it’s possible for me I do some sports to keep myself fit"

"At least twice a week I attend Christian women’s fellowship where we share challenges we face as women, success stories and we learn from each other."

"Being a mother, a wife and a citizen is always hard to be there when needed but I try my best to serve the community. I strive to have some time for my children since they are still young, while sparing some small time for my personal needs"

"As a woman, I have three cross cutting roles and challenges. Being a leader is a challenge whereby you are a servant of everyone who is a stakeholder."

"I grew up thinking that I would be a social worker. I think I got my inspiration from my mother. My dream kept on growing to the extent of applying for social studies during my senior six, but unfortunately things kept changing due to many circumstances."

"It is important for women and girls to understand that the centre for professional success is knowledge in ICT. It is not just a subject matter, but is a basic domain of any profession."

"We found out that this was the time to discuss what we have achieved, but also look at how to fast track targets that are trialing."

"This year’s retreat will take more days than the previous retreats because issues at hand require more time to enable leaders to come up with concrete resolutions to drive the nation to the next level."

"Rwanda remains committed to taking in up to 30,000 African refugees but only if they are willing to be repatriated."

"Rwanda Never Received Money to Host Refugees from Libya."

"Rwanda doesn’t need to be paid to do a humanitarian act."

"As a country, we have an experience of our people living in other countries as refugees for many years. We know what it means to be a refugee. You don’t need to have all the resources in the world to support the vulnerable and people whose lives are in danger."