"Since starting OzHarvest I’ve repurposed my life, and that has allowed me to find my true calling. I’m not special; I’m not exceptional – if there’s a lesson to learn it’s that all of us have the ability and capacity to be the best we can be."

"Mary Burton described Cleminshaw as “a really strong and determined woman” despite being physically frail in her later years"

"Growing up in an ethnic family, food was always central. In the Jewish religion, on Friday nights you bring in the Sabbath – for us it wasn’t so much a religious occasion but more a ritualistic one."

"Research shows that out of every five shopping bags of produce we buy, we throw one away; we waste one."

"the late activist would have her work cut for her, as she would find 3.11 million workers representing 25.3% of the workforce organised in trade unions, a shop steward movement which I believe has 300 000 men and women in almost every industry"

"She will have in her toolbox the most vanguard industrial labour relations, processes and procedures, rights and obligations in the Labour Relations Act"

"She will have legislation on Employment Equity, the Basic Conditions of Employment Act which incidentally updates the one Ray and her fellow unionists fought for in the late 1920s and 30s in the last century"

"We say rest in peace to Mama Diedericks, you have served your people with diligence, steadfastness, dignity, with your integrity and legacy intact"

"Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Eugene Johnson said Diedericks was the kind of woman she was always eager to learn from"

"Her fighting spirit, knowledge and courage were inspiring, Johnson said"

"She would also take a fresh look at the structure and role of the trade unions in South Africa, especially the methods of organisation and the scourge of corruption. And the duplication of trade union organisations competing against each other for members and revenue. For example, there are five unions servicing the transport industry and a large number of unions servicing the security industry - the largest security service in the world, which employs 450 000 people"

"Mabuyane said:We bid farewell to yet another colossal legend of our beloved Eastern Cape"

"I put her socks on but a few moments later she asked me to take them off her"

"She led a significant life and contributed immensely to the struggle"

"She was fierce to the very end. One of the last things she said was that her feet were cold"

"Auntie Lilly remained rooted in her community and did not accept anything in return for the role she played"

"She was someone who called a spade, a spade"

"If Ray Alexander-Simons landed in Cape Town today, on the 7th of November 2016 and started organising workers five days later, which indeed she did when she landed in Cape Town in 1929, she would find a vastly different scenario," he said."

"Mrs Alexander-Simons's daughter, Ms Tanya Barben, said: "It is appropriate that the function takes place on the 7th of November for it is the date on which teenager Rachel Esther Alexandrowich (Ray Alexander) arrived in Cape Town from Latvia and it is also the anniversary of the October Revolution [which took place in Petrograd, Russia, from the 7th to the 8th of November, 1917]. She was undaunted when facing the bosses, the bargaining councils or the police forces. She sacrificed a lot, including her own family to fight for a democratic South Africa"

"She rejected the Christianity of her parents and joined the philosophical and spiritualist Theosophical Society. She dressed eccentrically, favouring sandals over tight boots, and when travelling would wear two dresses at once to save the bother of having to take a suitcase"

"like every LGBTQIA+ child who has come out of the closet only to be thrown out of the house, I feel bereft. The South African church that was the mother of my faith has disowned me."

"When girls flourish the whole world flourishes."

"I am working to create a world that is good for girls."

"For girls to flourish our world must be safe, our environment clean, our planet healthy"

"For girls to flourish their voices must be heard, their choices honoured, and their right to bodily integrity affirmed."

"Forgiveness is not easy; it can seem like an impossible task. According to Mpho, only through walking this fourfold path, we free ourselves from the endless cycle of pain and retribution."

"forgiveness is the biggest help to transition away from the stereotypical patriarchal model that both women and men suffer under."

"If you conceptualize leadership as power over people, Ubuntu doesn’t have a place in that conceptualization. If you conceptualize leadership as power with people, it completely changes the way you operate, even as a leader."

"Privilege is there is almost nothing about you that I have to know, and yet you know so much about me."

"If we as a world ever got even a hint of the incredible love with which God loves us, we would be living in such a different world than we do now."

"we have to search our souls in order to find our own truth, to understand when we have been responsible for perpetuating inequality whether explicitly or complicitly. It is a painful process, but only then can we address it."

"To me, authentic leadership is leadership from the heart; from the center: that one recognizes the core of one’s being and leads from that space."

"Before transformation there must be the belief that transformation is possible, and the willingness to be transformed."

"1959 was declared Anti-Pass Year by the ANC in honour of the women because we fought so bravely against the passes"

"I don't know what you mean by "tired". I can't give up because the spirit is still there. I can't help it, even if I wanted to give up. Although I can't do everything physically, the spirit still wants what I have always wanted."

"A pass is this little book you must get when you are 16, and it says where you can work, and where you can be, and if you have got work. You can't get a job without this book. And you can only get a job where they stamp your pass to say 'Johannesburg' or 'Pretoria' and so on. You must carry it with you all the time because the police can ask you, 'Where is your pass?' any time, and then you must show them. If you haven't got your pass, they put you in jail for some days or else you must pay some money to get out."

"My spirit is not banned — I still say I want freedom in my lifetime."

"It was more about the different cultures rather than about colour but we have managed to work through that and we are still learning"

"The conversations are set under the covering theme of Love, Loss and Life, because these are broad topics. Guests get to share their experiences with loss, life and what they have learnt"

"I hope each question I ask my guests, viewers can ask themselves so they can stop and think and consider their own journeys"

"I talk to the person (guest) behind the art. Not about what you do, but who you are. And I think some of these women have been longing for a space where people can be interested in who they are outside of the drama of fame"

"There is a lot of pressure (in society) to be more than what you are and, in the process, we are not having conversations that matter"

"My grandmother was able to raise 11 kids, providing for them while also holding down different jobs (as a domestic worker and in a shop)"

"I think subconsciously seeing my grandmother work so tirelessly and being a happy woman influenced me to think that I can do a bunch of things and demand more out of life for myself"

"Because people who did, they’re going through a very hard time at the moment because the surgeries have got very negative effects on them. So, I’m not ashamed of who I am anymore. I love myself. And I want to tell intersex people that you can’t expect people to love you if you don’t love yourself first, and to live your life because No Body Is Shameful"

"I never wanted to become an activist, all I ever wanted was to reach out and support people that had similar experiences as mine, people that felt isolated and needed someone who understood what they were going through."

"But the more I met other people like me the more I realized how privileged I am that I didn’t get an operation -- that, I’m thankful that I did not get an operation when I was born."