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"As for the charges against me, I am unconcerned. I am beyond their timid lying morality and so I am beyond caring."

"Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or a water-cooler. It can become an intrinsic part of their dialogue."

"To be a good politician you must be wise like a snake, calm like a dove and kind like an angel."

"How beautiful would it be if our women could have the same opportunity as men."

"The true position of Nigerian women had to be judged from the women who carried babies on their backs and farmed from sunrise to sunset, not women who used tea, sugar, and flour for breakfast."

"We had equality till Britain came."

"I tried to review the teaching of mathematics in schools, to make sure that the teachers understood the new concept which was already in use in Europe and America. I think we made an appreciable progress. But one of the saddest days of my life was the day the federal commissioner announced in 1978 that modern mathematics was abolished in schools."

"Let us stop this system of putting people in positions just because of the contacts they have. That is a major reason why we remain a poorly governed and undeveloped country."

"As long as we are celebrating a woman vice chancellor because she is the first or a woman chief judge because she is the first, then we have not arrived. We look forward to the time when we will have many women in such positions and we will be celebrating so many of them."

"Ask yourself over and over again, has the Chibok affair become too late to think about?"

"Play hard and keep straight, and continue getting quality education, well informed, so that in any situation you have something positive to contribute."

"To the elderly ones, you are retired but don't be tired. Just keep doing what you were doing."

"The excitement I felt on receiving the news from Professor Jubril Aminu (Minister of Education) had more to do with seeing it in terms of opening up the field for women than anything else. I saw it as an opportunity to show that women too could rise up to the occasion."

"After creating the “political class,” journalists failed to set parameters for person in that class."

"The experiments in the schools led many parents to think more about what their children learned at school and it is not too great a claim to say that the annual and end-of-term inservice courses for teachers led ministries of education to rethink their mathematics programme. In the case of Lagos State, the favourable demonstration effect of the Entebbe Mathematics program coinciding with the states' readiness to introduce a new syllabus led to the total acceptance of the project. In Lagos State, we believe we still have considerable work to do with the teachers. Teaching the teachers mathematics is a relatively simple task but changing their attitude and practice is harder. Several years of hard work are still necessary before we can truly claim that modern mathematics has come to stay."

"The Entebbe Mathematics Series have sometimes been dubbed American but this is to ignore the valuable contribution of the African participants, who feel keenly the African origin of the series. Moreover the whole exercise has provided an international forum for teaching and learning, unprecedented in the annals of education. Africans, working with Europeans and Americans, have produced mathematics texts good enough for use anywhere in the world. Mutual benefits have been derived by all concerned and the project has clearly contributed to international understanding."

"The African Mathematics Programme brought together Africans, Americans, and British educators in English-speaking African countries to consider changes in mathematics education in Africa. ... The African Mathematics Programme organized writing workshops in Africa that produced the Entebbe Modern Mathematics Series. Between 1962 and 1969, the African Mathematics Programme conducted annual eight-week writing workshops in Entebbe and Mombassa, and produced over 80 volumes of textual materials covering primary school, teacher training, secondary, and sixth-form mathematics."

"The role of the Nigerian University system as an instrument for cohesion, change and development in our nation. Today, as we lament the falling standard in education and the negative ethnicization and contraction of real quality educational opportunities, we might do well to go dust up that lecture from this great Nigerian to follow up on some of her proposals."

"The death of this renowned Nigerian scholar is a great loss to the academic community and the country."

"Aged 89, she was a woman of rare attributes, a disciplined and astute administrator who was not afraid to work with others. Her success as a vice chancellor showed that she has a strong character who could withstand any challenge. She excelled in the administration of the University of Benin in spite of the mounting opposition by the male staff."

"Her intellectual and practicable contributions to our projects and programmes went along to ensure the sustainability and continued relevance of the foundation."

"On the home front, she was firmly established as a matriarch of immeasurable value; a wife, mother, aunt and confidant. At 89, she lived a fulfilled life worthy of emulation by women and men alike. As she aged gracefully, she maintained her commanding presence and quiet dignity as a positive influence for human progress."

"As at the time she resumed in UNIBEN from Lagos following the tenure lapse of Adamu Baike, its former VC, the warring academics who wanted to occupy that exalted position were believed to have slunk into their scholarly recesses because there was little they could do about the federal government’s choice in the form of protest at the time."

"What can a woman do? You say everyday. In the end, a woman does something, and even then still you look down on women."

"There is no problem in this world that cannot be solved."

"There was nothing in me when I was in school that made me feel I was going to be a writer. It was one of those things that just happened. I didn’t have the ambition to say, “Oh, Flora, you are going to be a writer, so work towards it"

"We are well, Efuru replied. It is only hunger. It is good that it is only hunger. Good health is what we pray for."

"Efuru told him that she would drown herself in the lake if he did not marry her. Adizua told her he loved her very much and that even the dust she trod on meant something to him."

"I am sure you will like this gin. Nwabuzo had it buried in the ground last year when there was rumour that policemen were sent to search her house. When the policemen left, finding nothing, Nwabuzo was still afraid and left it in the ground. A week later, she fell ill and was rushed to the hospital where she remained for six months. She came back only a week ago. So the gin is a very good one."

"They did not see the reason why Adizua should not marry another woman since according to them two men do not live together. To them Efuru was a man, since she could not reproduce."

"If I am considered the doyenne of African female writers, the glory goes to the oral historians and griottes who mesmerized me with stories about the mystical powers of Ogbuide, the mother of the lake, my family members of industrious women and men who served as role models, as well as my penchant for service and the pursuit of excellence."

"I don’t think that I’m a radical feminist,”"

"I don’t even accept that I’m a feminist. I accept that I’m an ordinary woman who is writing about what she knows. I try to project the image of women positively."

"Women have always been powerful and striven to achieve financial independence. I wanted a politics that fought for expanding and nurturing the power that women already had. It is not that I believed that there was no such thing as gender inequality. I just did not want to see a woman as a victim but as someone who was always enterprising and looking for ways to undermine the systems of power that tried to put her down."

"Feminism was a politics of empowerment that assumed that a woman was a victim. I saw feminism as a politics that had to first position women as victims so that it can then empower them."

"As Adiewere and Efuru were eating, a troop of children with shining tummies in front of them were seen approaching. "These children are just in time. The way they time themselves is admirable."

"When Efuru went home, Ajanupu could not help admiring her character. "She is a woman among women. I like the way she is carrying her burden. She still loves that imbecile husband of hers and she is going in search of him."

"The novel captures the ongoing changes in Nigerian society where women strive for (economic) independence and personal happiness and growth rather than a life within the boundaries of an outdated tradition. In stressing the economic independence of women, Nwapa reminded me of Virginia Woolf and her essay “A Room Of One’s Own”."

"Contrary to Woolf, who I personally always found to be overly dramatic and elitist, and, thus, exclusive, in her viewpoints and demands to literature and feminism, Nwapa did not think of herself as a feminist. At the same time, she is crucially aware of the misrepresentation of women in literature by fellow male authors who tend to display women as prostitutes or mischievous creatures, all of which Nwapa counteracts in her own writing by displaying women as positive, independent and real as they are."

"Every worker deserves to have protections on the job and it is the goal of the labor movement to ensure that happens."

"The ability to speak up for each other on the job and at the ballot box is a crucial component in determining the rights and enacting the policies that affect the lives of millions of women and their families."

"We need to join together and speak out for good wages, great benefits, fair scheduling and equal pay for equal work"

"As many women in our movement do – we find ourselves outside the spotlight, doing the hard work behind the scenes, focusing on making big plans come together to benefit the whole"

"It’s not enough to protect what we have, we’re not just going to recover what we have lost. This is about taking risks to define the future…on our terms."

"Employers have the ability to voluntarily recognize them off the spot, but that doesn't always happen as we know. And then there's a contract negotiation process that goes on"

"People are tired of toxic environments. They're tired of being treated poorly and not having a say in how their workplace is being shaped or changed."

"And they asked if I would be willing to work on that, but it was much too big a job for me to do by myself. And the other women I had worked with had young children, including Elaine, Barbara Wade, Anne Kirby (ph). I mean, there were a number of them and I said we can work on this"

"“I think if there have been fewer women than men in computing, it’s because they’ve been discouraged back at the education level from majoring in math, or engineering, or computer science.”"

"“Go after it! Don’t be afraid to major in something in college that will lead you to this.”"

"It really amazed me that these men were programmers because I thought it was women’s work!"

"The power of NEPAD is the power of ideas and solutions it brings to the table. NEPAD and ECA have been working together closely on the MoveAfrica border system to harmonise systems, processes, and regulations in support of implementation of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area. NEPAD has also been at the forefront to ensure that the single African transport market can take hold. It is time for Africa to have its own development institution."

"The health pandemic caught Africa, like the rest of the world, unprepared. Our insurance systems were not deep enough, and as a collective we’ve needed to come together to respond. Twenty years after the birth of the African Union, which was created to reinforce solidarity, the continent was tested."

"As we seek to access foreign markets we must also build and strengthen our own capital markets and increase efforts towards financial inclusion."

"I’ve always tried to do what was best for Arkansas, even if it meant taking on my party, the president, the Wall Street banks or the Washington unions that spent $10 million to defeat me"

"If you think campaigning is easy, it’s not. It’s fun. It can be fun. But at some point when you’re spending 18 hours a day, seven days a week out on the road, it’s a grind’ and it can be"

"Public service is not just reserved for a few. Just because I’m not an elected official that doesn’t mean I’ll give up. We all need to be engaged, it takes all of us to solve problems"

"She’s recognized the generic Democrat has trailed the generic Republican since January in Arkansas, and that’s what she has battled to overcome all year. She did not deny that a primary election challenge made that overall objective more difficult"

"Lincoln has her own record of deregulating Wall Street and opposing the public option to thank for her political demise"

"“We know the feeling of vulnerability. We know what it’s like to live divided and what suffering wars cause.""

"We know how precious freedom is and how painful it is to be deprived of it."

"“the rejection of any kind of oppression has become an instinct in us,”"

"“We are for the victims and against further escalation,”"

"“We help beyond our size and strength,”"

"“Hungarian fathers and sons living in Ukraine are also giving their lives in the trenches,”"

"“I have seen the suffering that families go through. I have seen what they experience when peace is broken. I have met Ukrainian and Hungarian people who have lost family members. I have met Ukrainian children for whom a kindergarten was set up with the help and support of Hungary; children from whom the war is depriving a happy childhood,”"

""when at least one side sees the time for negotiations as having come,”"

"“If there is no child, there will be no future,”"

"“What is the point of looking after the Earth if we don’t have children and grandchildren to pass it on to?”"

"She state can help reduce the financial barriers to starting a family and ensure that those who have children are not disadvantaged compared to those who did not want to start a family."

"At the Eucharistic Congress in 2021, and during his three-day apostolic visit this April, Pope Francis’ presence had such an appeal that it reached the hearts of even those who are not practicing believers."

"Hungary is bigger in size, but our population is almost similar. We need to focus on how we cooperate based on a mutual respect because that is what we can offer as Hungarians, the respect for you, for your way of life, for your people and for your nation; and that is what we expect also from our allies. It is this mutual respect background which our corporation already lies on and which it is going to fly on in the future as well,"

"Your Invitation to women deliver proof for our common commitment to empowering women. I thank you for what I have done in this respect."

"We spoke about the wars happening in our neighboring countries and of course for us Hungarians, the war in our direct neighborhood in Ukraine, it is very alarming. This meeting just offered us a chance to speak about the importance of peace. We can also learn from you how to appreciate a peace situation and the lack of it in a war conflict. So that is why we stand for peace in Ukraine, and we try to do our best to reach peace negotiations and peace in general,”"

"“I wanted to see for myself how much Rwanda has developed in the recent decades and I can see it myself. I had the privilege and the chance to meet Rwanda people, to meet Rwanda communities and to experience personally, how far you got from where you started,”"

"“Knowing your tragic history, it is even more to appreciate how much progress you made lately and it’s also thanks to your leadership and your commitment,”"

"“Hungary is like a doorway to the European Union and for us Rwanda is also a doorway to the African continent. So, that makes our situation also quite unique. We are bigger in size but our population is almost similar,”"

"The Office for the Protection of Sovereignty will properly fulfill its mission as defined in the Constitution if its activities do not affect the freedom of the press or freedom of expression. The President of the Republic has ordered the promulgation of the law,”"

"If we have no kids, we have no future, and having children is saving the world"

"We speak always or very much about climate change, about the challenges we face and how we should protect our planet. But my main question is, “Why should we save our planet if not for the future generations?”"

"“We are about to give up on our future,”"

"I don’t really want to comment on the prime minister’s statements. I don’t think it is a place and a time to do so,”"

"We do understand what this war is about. Maybe for those who live far away from this war (they) don’t really understand the situation the same way we do,”"

"What I think would be the most important is to reach peace,” I think in this process the role of the United States is unavoidable. ... The approach of the president of the United States is also very important, so if the president of the United States is in favor of peace in Ukraine, then we have more chance to achieve peace than if he isn’t.”"

"Don’t be afraid of getting engaged. Don’t be afraid of having a family. Don’t be afraid of having kids and saying yes to life,”"

"Jesus Christ is there with me. And then from that moment on in my position as a president, I have always had this security, this feeling of security that I’m never alone. I’m never alone when it’s about making a very difficult decision. I’m not alone when it’s about protecting our fellow Hungarians who are living in Ukraine, a country hit by war,"

"You shouldn’t be scared of anything either because you’re not alone.”"

"I’m happy for that. I think it is important.” The church announced construction of the temple in 2019 but does not have a groundbreaking date."

"I think it is an important sign that we are not ready to give up on our Christianity. For us, Christianity is our predestination, I would say,”"

"This is a bi-annual event held in Budapest for the fifth time, and that while its main focus is ‘what is happening to Hungarians in Hungary, in the Carpathian Basin, and in the diaspora."

"There is not a single country in Europe with a high enough birth rate to maintain its population, let alone increase it."

"Earnest, open talks’, ‘in a lot more informal terms."

"I now cherish the ability to be surprised by things that come up unexpectedly, by beautiful things and new perspectives that emerge out of the blue, even in the most conventional and repetitive settings. The ability to be surprised surprises me."

"think it is very hard to imagine what your driving forces are and often one has to ask again and again, what’s the point of doing this, what’s the point of doing this, what’s the point of doing this."

"often feel like, because of the situation we are in, there is no point in doing this. But I think there is also just joy, in finding that things come together, the joy of writing, even though I really find writing gruesome."

"But there is something beautiful in the ability to create and I think that is the driving force, it is an attempt to create, to build, to be a witness, to tell stories when everything else doesn’t make sense and you know that your possibility to change things on the ground is not so high."

"If your work is about trauma and repression, it’s hard to be hopeful."

"a lot of our experience of the world but sometimes they take over too much and I think maybe there is something else to be explored, something more than defeat."

"This strict code of conduct has its roots in the patriarchal culture…of the country,and exerts enormous influence on society. So, the mindset of patriarchy is still there,”"

"We need women to have self-confidence that they can change, that this is the revolution we need and this is the revolution we deserve."

"There remains a huge gap between the vision and reality. Why? Because the big debate is how to blend Islamic politics and respect for women’s rights,”"

"Promoting women’s rights because it will spur development and economic growth is a powerful way for the United States to advance its foreign policy in the future."

"An increase in average female education by just three years can lower fertility rates and increase female support of political change and ability to be independent."

"Though current legislation is more favorable to women than ever before in Egypt."

". Remembering that what women need… is a voice and a job"

"All talk to democracy is bulls— without equality with men…when will the bomb of Arab woman explode? I’m speaking here of her ability, her ambition, her liberty, strength and rights."