My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.

Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.

I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.

Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.

I want to tell women in developing countries that they are as powerful as their male counterparts, and they can play an equal role in their respective societies.

Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.

In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society.

Chashkin Sar was virgin, and we climbed it for the first time, and afterwards, the people renamed it as Samina Baig.

I would stand there at times and remember how beautiful God created this world, and then I would be reassured that he would certainly take care of me and all of my loved ones.

You never know what's going to inspire you, until suddenly it does.

I was ecstatic when they re-named "French fries" as "freedom fries." Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

And yet Curt’s a real writer too. His machinery is stuck, that’s all.

A half roll of Life Savers fused to the pockets, And in yet another, a lone unwrapped mintHad bundled itself in a stole of gray lint.

Did Stanton say I was a damned fool? Then I dare say I must be one, for Stanton is generally right and he always says what he means.

Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

I'd like to fly, but my wings have been so denied.

We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization.

The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind.