"You have to stay patient and stick with whatever is best for you…If it doesn’t work out, don’t beat yourself up about it – just keep going until you find the right one."

"The best thing about getting older [is] learning how powerful human connections can be…It’s great when two people can share something deeper than just lust and passion between them – something real and lasting."

"You know what you want more clearly…you’re less likely to settle or compromise your standards just because somebody looks good or says all the right things."

"I see politics like a marketing space to sell your ideas to the public, and that women can sell better than their male counterpart when they are empowered to do so since women today are more educated than before."

"I know all the research findings, I know this issue about financing, I know all that but I also know that women today are more educated than before."

"I remembered that God did not create me inferior. I remembered just that politics is like marketing and women can sell better than men."

"I want to encourage you. Sharpen your prowess at goal scoring and make that all the opportunities you get are translated into countable goals. May the Lord go with you. May you be united more than anymore."

"For me, until the final whistle goes, you cannot say your team has not won, I believe in that so when the final whistle goes then I give up. But I was sure that even if it remains one or two minutes to final whistle, you will score, I was convinced."

"Football remains a beautiful thing for relaxation and for future building. But it also remains a passion that when you follow can take you to places."

"As women, we can come up with a programme to support them (female candidates) financially and materially". to enable them to conduct campaign activities effectively."

"To all the opposition leaders, let them follow Covid-19 guidelines and avoid gathering large numbers of people. Politics and elections are not a matter of life and death, take a leaf from PF."

"Politics and elections were not a matter of life and death."

"I urge all politicians to adhere to Covid-19 guidelines and avoid gathering people in large numbers."

"So I would like to say to the opposition especially the UPND President Mr. Hichilema that it is not right to compare himself to President Lungu who is the sitting head of state."

"Let the President work. There is nothing like this is an election period, the President has to be given chance to execute his duties without interference."

"It is folly for Mr Hichilema to compare himself with the sitting head of state as he is mandated to carrying out his duties, with or without elections."

"The country’s political landscape is now favouring the candidature of women despite the few incidents of hostilities against them.But they have to be strong and assertive because it is not an easy task."

"With a good number of women participating in the elections, Zambia is on the right path". to attaining equal representation in its governance system."

"It's in the past, I am a woman of the future."

"There is a life - a useful life, after divorce."

"And people think to be a princess or prince, that it's about money. But nobody talks about duty, education, or leading by example. Things like that."

"When you bring a political solution to any kind of violent conflict, then all these other underlying causes are addressed, and therefore, people can start living together in harmony."

"The leader can decide to kill you. He can decide to mutilate you. But I was determined because I felt that if meeting with the rebels could bring peace, would save lives, it was worthwhile making the commitment."

"I made up my mind I was going to do everything possible to reach out to the warlords and talk to them, talk them into a peaceful solution."

"You can subdue people, you can humiliate them, they feel they have no voice, they’ll go underground—it will resurface."

"Because you are Black, you are blue, you are crocodile, it doesn't matter — we need people to give a hand to help others."

"My wish today is for the royal houses around the world to join my foundation, and help me to help others."

"Everything that happens in our life is because you meet someone who gives you the road. Because we need each other. You give me hands, tomorrow I give those hands to someone else."

"I find it unnecessary to deal with the issue of extraterritoriality to dispose of this appeal [because] the CFNIS did not violate the Charter"

"The matters between Justice Côté and w:Revenue Quebec were resolved years ago. Justice Côté was one of the most experienced litigators in the country with extensive expertise in civil and commercial litigation over a distinguished 34 year career."

"We as artists are responsible if something wrong is taking place in our society. It’s very important for us to speak up, even though we may have to do it with a double tongue. We have to speak out for our people."

"If you look for them, you can find hero’s everywhere, in ordinary people."

"I believe the image is what can unite the world."

"(about Fadwa Tuqan) one of the most important poets of Palestine. She wrote a book that is like the bible of the palestinian feminist movement. When she was 12 years old a boy threw flowers on her. Her brother saw it, and it was a big crisis for her family. They told her ”You will stay in the house until you die.” Her brother Ibrahim Toquan was one of the best poets in Palestine at the time. He didn’t let her out of the house, but he taught her to write. After 20 years of house arrest she left the house. She was a rebel, and she established the poetry of love and loneliness in Palestine."

"My project is to rewrite the palestinian history through the eyes of women."

"I’m interested in finding the relation between war and the human being. The beauty of the small pleasures in life, subtle things."

"Three cities run in my veins: Jerusalem, which I consider to be the place of my soul’s identity and existence; Jericho, the city that colors my heart and my passion; and Hebron, which I believe is the source of my creative imagination and my personal archive of popular folk tales, like those about Al-Shater Hassan."

"I've gotten used to so many symbolic interpretations of my work. Every fighting couple becomes a manifestation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (2019)"

"Shalev is an ‘extraordinary writer,’ the French crime novelist Leila Slimani has said, one whose ‘style is poetic, luminous, demanding’ and who writes ‘with incredible delicacy and power about family, love and fear.’"

"(Do you consider yourself a religious person?) No, not at all. I see the Bible as a source of inspiration, for me it’s literature. (2014)"

"Living in Jerusalem and writing in Jerusalem is always a struggle, because the tension is huge, sometimes is even tragic. On one hand, is really disturbing, but, on the other hand, is a huge inspiration. (2014)"

"You can feel the extremeness of Israeli society and life in my books without it being explicit. I only look for the individual experienced and give a taste of the complexity of life in Israel. (2014)"

"The job of literature is to change the reader’s soul. I don’t want my readers just to enjoy themselves. I want them to go through some sort of experience that might change themselves. (2014)"

"Normally the characters I create are busy in some sort of crisis and, as a literary therapist, it is my job to help them overcome it. (2014)"

"Encounters with pain and sorrow made me want to write. When I was 6, I was already writing sad poems about cats and dogs that had been killed and soldiers that were dying in war. It’s in my DNA. (2014)"

"Writing is all about discovery. It is my own journey into the unknown, no less than my characters' journey. Knowing and creating are almost opposite for me. In order to create, I must leave ample space for the unknown. It turns the writing process into an adventure. (2019)"

"Creating new from old is to a large extent the story of our lives. We are born anew into an "old" narrative, as humans and as writers. (2019)"

""you know how difficult it is to realize that some pains can’t be cured by love?”"

"It seems that wherever you go, your country follows you like a shadow. (2019)"

"When two people meant for each other refuse to accept their vocation, they sentence themselves to a life full of hatred and blame and everyone is to blame for their missed opportunity."