"While pursuing those courses my love grew for the IT industry so I got home one day from school and told my dad I was going to start an IT school and call it AITC (Ashley Hills IT Center), she says."

"I always knew I wanted to own a school where knowledge could be imparted into people. I started school business since I was 19."

"I created several companies over the years that has been focused on education. It got to a point of managing them seamlessly and effortlessly and it became evident I just had to group them. Education is wide and I’ve created services that takes care of training, consulting and services all in the space of education."

"I believe there have been people who’ve been on my journey for 11years and there’s been a person who’s just heard my story. I just opened up my world so I can impact that boy or girl who’s got dreams. It’s been hard work and perseverance because trust me when I state the whole story, it’s not that easy."

"A few don’t take me seriously because of my age. I also sometimes get surrounded by opportunists because they think at my age I don’t have a fair ground as to how I manage my finances."

"I believe knowledge is power and is very important in our day to day lives. Education is a right to people and not a privilege and that everyone, one way or the other has to educate him/herself. I also believed technology is the answer to everything. It runs our world."

"In 2014 I wanted to include other programmes so I decided to change AITC into a full time college and added other programmes so then came the name Potters International College."

"My life isn’t all peaches and cream; I have failed many times but I have also won many times. You do not give up; you keep pushing. I have a dream and I am living it every single day. Live your truth and be kind to yourself. Most importantly support other women."

"I want them to know that there is beauty in independence. And independence doesn’t come cheap. They need to work very hard for it. They shouldn’t place their happiness into anyone’s hand."

"It is quite disheartening to see people having to give up on their education dreams because I lived that myself. I created and focused on a vision that could provide education opportunities for as many as I can"

"We have seen that more proactive actions from state actors happen when the country’s leader steps up and declares action against gender-based violence."

"[W]e should focus not only on ending all forms of violence and discrimination against women and girls in Kenya, but on being proactive about making the country a more just society for all."

"Addressing gender-based violence should be the rule and not the exception."

"Today, the success of their efforts is evidenced by the rise of women on the corporate ladder, in politics and society in general. Currently, there are more women in the corporate boardrooms. People no longer expect the women just to rise and make the tea because everybody there can make the tea; male or female"

"There are many women achievers doing great things and who can serve as speakers, panelists and role models. They need to be encouraged to come out. Organisers need to make the extra effort to find them and factor in their peculiar responsibilities when inviting them."

"It is men of purpose and women of courage taking that commitment from the home into the workplace. There is a big piece of this that is calling for our men to lead differently and not just make this woman's work."

"As a continent though, we are going nowhere if we leave 50% of us behind"

"When people are empowered, they can become all that they were meant to be. Until then, you can never know what is inside them"

"Rape victims do not only need summary trials, but they need certain psycho-social services such as specialised counselling to minimise the trauma they go through"

"Being a gender advocate does not make you a "marriage wrecker" as some people initially labelled us. I am blessed to be happily married to my husband Kwame for the past 23 years"

"If we are to address the challenges of our generation, we must be both intellectually and politically courageous in the face of questions of what justice needs to look like."

"women scientists don’t just survive but thrive, excel and innovate"

"I want to honor the fact that you are graduating into a world that is tight with tension and we, you and I, have real work ahead of us."

"It is about serving humanity. There is no better person in this world who typifies service to humanity than Jesus Christ who came basically as a servant. So anytime I am serving humanity, I see it as working in the Lord’s vineyard"

"One of the reasons why women do not want to speak up is the feeling that ‘who would believe me?"

"Yes, in the past, I may have defined it differently but today, I am very convinced of the fact that it is divine destiny that God has given me the opportunity to help serve others"

"By virtue of this expensive and precious Whitman education, we are called to be part of the solution to very serious challenges."

"The Police have a way of responding. They can use the courts as well by seeking a protection order or an occupation order"

"These three are subsumed under the broader rubric of doing the will of God and fulfilling His purposes in my life. I do not let go of integrity; that always comes in there as the foundation"

"So all around, a lot of women and people who are abused feel caught not only by their own internal circumstances, but also because the system can be very very tough and unfriendly"

"Innovation has a critical role to play at every step of the agricultural value chain."

"Women do the bulk of the work to produce, process and market food. They are on the frontline of agriculture in Africa."

"The arc of the moral universe bends toward justice, but it is the committed purposeful actions of change agents who reach into the sky to force the rainbow back to earth."

"Move out because once abuse starts it never ends"

"We need to leverage the talents of all innovators, including those of women."

"And that’s part of the reason why the confusion is internalised"

"Then an explosion will happen which is the violence and after that, there’s a phase called the honey phase. This same person will beat you up, probably rape you at the same time, deny you many things, throw you out of the house, and then when you begin to take steps they suddenly show some form of remorse"

"Those who accuse me and criticize me regarding my marriage with Choubani are hypocrites."

"Love is not Haram."

"My entrepreneurship spirit has since helped to empower many women through providing them with the means and support to generate an income, now they’re able to care for their families."

"We plucked plastic bags from trash piles and took them home together with my four friends. We washed the bags, dried them, cut them into strips, and crocheted them into bags. Other people made fun of us but we never gave up, we just pressed on, knowing that we were doing it for a good cause."

"I started seeing a lot of people indiscriminately dumping their garbage at the back of their houses and in the street. The problem was only getting worse and other than just looking ugly, the waste piles were also causing other issues in my community."

"Curbing growth of our human population is a side effect,” she says---one that would reduce global emissions."

"If women’s farms yielded as much on average as farmers run by men across the world, it would stop approximately 2 billion tons of CO2 from entering the atmosphere between now and 2050. “That’s on par with the impact household recycling can have globally."

"More than 130 million women worldwide are denied access to school. Yet the more education a woman attains, the fewer children she has. From a conservation perspective, empowering women to have smaller families is an objectively positive outcome. “The right to go to school effects how many human beings live on this planet."

"Instead of clear-cutting new land, why not work to make the existing farms run by women more efficient? “Close that gap and farm yields rise by 20 to 30 percent."

"Women are the primary farmers of the world,”They produce 60 to 80 percent of the food in lower-income countries."

"Support women smallholders, realize higher yields, avoid deforestation, and sustain the life-giving power of forests."

"Gender equity is on par with wind turbines and solar panels and forests,” Wilkinson says, adding, “This does not mean women and girls are responsible for fixing everything. But we probably will."