"Reigniting the revolution means I want us to notice all of this and find ways to encourage more women to step up and more companies to recognize what women bring to the table."

"There aren’t enough women sitting at the tables where decisions are made."

"If we could get to a place of true equality, where what we do in life is determined not by gender but by our passions and interests, our companies would be more productive and our home lives not just better balanced but happier."

"Colleges have a responsibility to keep our kids safe. Full stop. And protect them from hate. Full stop. And they have the ability to do this." [on 2024 Pro-Palestine College Protests]"

"I think denial is the worst. I think silence is the next worst." [on the sexual violence committed by Hamas during the October 7 hostage crisis]"

"Real choice would mean that people were choosing based on their interests and personal passions, not based on their gender."

"As a woman gets more successful, she is less liked by people of both genders, and as a man gets more successful, he does not take a likability hit."

"It’s the classic chicken-and-egg problem: we need more women leaders to show more women they can lead, and we need to show more women they can lead to get more women leaders."

"In our society, we don’t talk about gender, at all. I don’t understand how you fix a problem if you can’t acknowledge you have one."

"The word "female," when inserted in front of something, is always with a note of surprise."

"But the women have to run in order to get elected. And right now, they are less inclined to do so."

"The concrete things are men need to do more childcare and housework."

"We need to get to equality in the home. We cannot have equality in the office until we have equality in the home. It can’t happen."

"I think equal maternity and paternity leave are hugely important. How are we going to teach men to be equals if the average woman takes three months and the average man takes two weeks?"

"I won’t stop until women run half the companies and half the countries and men are doing half the housework."

"You’ll get knocked down over and over and over again, and you get back up."

"“ would say three things: Find what you love, and don’t let it go no matter what. I would say Winston Churchill really knew what he was talking about when he said, ‘Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never ….’ And I would say that I am living proof that it’s true that if you can imagine it, you can achieve it."

"When you find what you love, you do it. That’s it."

"When people say, ‘I want to start a business,’ my question is always, ‘Why?’ Because there’s got to be a mission — there’s got to be a reason you’re doing it so that no matter how hard it is, you want to keep doing it over and over and over again, because you love it."

"That moment is when you find what you were born to do. For me, I reached the point where I was spending all my time doing this anyway, and I was wasting my parents’ money on courses I wasn’t going to. So I had that moment where I was very clear: This is what I wanted to do with my life."

"I have done something, and we have done something, that has changed people’s lives. I would much rather live a life of purpose than one in which I might have other things but not that."

"The wonderful thing about the way I was raised is that no one ever told me that I couldn’t do those things."

"I know that we made mistakes."

"This is what happens when you work to change things, and first they think you're crazy, then they fight you, and then all of a sudden you change the world."

"We want laws that can back us in our society and also help our children."

"It is time we begin to think of strategies to ensure women inclusion in all levels of governance."

"We are first and foremost women before our various challenges. We are not our challenges, every woman has her own challenges some are physical while others are hidden, they are challenges all the same."

"We have the right to employment, health and education and we can do excellently well if we are supported, encouraged and equipped."

"I want to implore those with disabilities to embrace their situation and believe in themselves that there is no stopping them, if they don’t hinder themselves with negative attitudes and self-pity."

"To embrace “WHAT” I AM TO MANY NOT “WHO” I AM."

"Feminism is about granting women the grace to be angry about their trauma and pains the way they choose to, and being sympathetic enough to ask why they are angry and genuinely listen and understand their point of view."

"Yes, we are proud, to be Rwandese So proud that we would burn our breasts like Ndabaga."

"I am a product of the hurt, chained, restless and once hopeless, but your grammar is wrong, there’s no full stop so don’t force it."

"That I am that color USUALLY ARTISTICALLY COMPATIBLE with that of ancient the walls."

"Poetry can push our boundaries of “speech freedom”, which will allow us to encourage a generation of critical thinkers."

"Poetry has the ability to open up the space for many Rwandans to participate in conversations about social issues, mainly those that are taboo."

"I hope my writing can help people to see life in a different light and encourage mental emancipation."

"People do not understand how fast a culture can disappear without art especially a country whose culture is art in itself."

"Poetry is some people’s source of income."

"It’s been a tremendous honour to work with such strong young women because they continue to teach and push me in various ways."

"In the pages of history, in the lives of the heroes and heroines, the destinies and possibilities of a people are written. In them, we have been trying to discover ideals for ourselves, our daughters and granddaughters."

"Let us realize the power of individuals, joined for good purposes."

"A fuller knowledge of our History and Literature will bring to many faith and trust in the good of the world, the joy of living, content in attaining all the possibilities of our present existence — all fundamental principles of our religion."

"Religion is needed in the world. Whatever may be said against its methods in the past, to-day with the light of science removing all superstition, it is capable of producing the very best. Religion is needed to strengthen and reinforce our moral and ethical leanings."

"Religion is the expression and evolution of the most divine thought that has ever burst into consciousness in the mind of man, revealing the soul, at one with the Soul of the Universe"

"Let us be tolerant, courteous, and just to each other...Let us be entirely free from personalities, and yet have freest discussions."

"We get our knowledge by balloon ascensions into the spiritual clouds for a few moments, and we are provided with parachutes to let us down easily again into the material world."

"If it were generally understood that Christianity and Mohammedanism were genuine daughters of Israel, we might hope for less unfilial treatment"

"We, drops of blood from one great artery, who have come from distant homes"