Wanjiku Kabira

"I think that as women, we need a movement. You can’t do it by bureaucracy. Though we have the constitution, which we have all worked for and has set the trend towards equality, we need to look and ask, “what’s holding us up?"

"The old model of saying the man is the breadwinner and the woman is the homemaker is gone. We really have to create a new model for women to move out. The model should also sensitise a husband to see that, if she goes out, the family is still protected."

"The power of numbers, the intellectual capacity of women, and the lobbying capacity that women possess will help them enter those spaces and get what they want. We cannot relax before we reach our destination. We must rise again and march forward."

"We don’t want to be equal with men in an oppressive environment. Numbers do not tell it all. MPs can be 50:50 in parliament (fifty per cent women and fifty per cent men). This balance means nothing if people are going to bed hungry. That is not the environment that we want. We need an environment of social transformation, so I said we need to change the institutions. We need to change legislation to have both men and women are living like human beings."