"“Some people ask: ‘Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that…"

"I was once talking about gender and a man said to me, ‘Why does it have to be you as a woman? Why not you as a human …"

"Some people will say, Oh, but women have the real power: bottom power. (This is a Nigerian expression for a woman who…"

"If we see the same thing over and over, it becomes normal.”"

"Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage.”"

"The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are.”"

"I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femininity.”"

"Culture does not make people. People make culture.”"

"All of us, women and men, must do better.”"

"(Pages 17-18)"