Teach her to question men who can have empathy for women only if they see them as relational rather than as individual equal humans.

We have a world full of women who are unable to exhale fully because they have for so long been conditioned to fold themselves into shapes to make themselves likeable.

If we don't place the straitjacket of gender roles on young children, we give them space to reach their full potential.

Because when there is true equality, resentment does not exist.

That a woman claims not to be feminist does not diminish the necessity of feminism. If anything, it makes us see the extent of the problem, the successful reach of patriarchy.

There must be more than male benevolence as the basis for a woman's well-being.

Make dressing a question of taste and attractiveness instead of a question of morality.

Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that.

A father is as much a verb as a mother.

When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.

If we in Nigeria and Africa generally are to experience a true national transformation, we must purposefully begin a campaign for national reorientation.

Men find it more difficult than women to be alone. They function better with someone in their lives. Being married, they are rooted, so they feel safe to go and do what they want to do.

... the possibility of one particular photographer's pictures lying around the corner is never realized until the photographer is there. It's one of the enigmas of photography.

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days.

The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.

Why do I drink Champagne for breakfast? Doesn't everyone?

It takes four generations to recover from every act of violence.