“There were just four things a woman could be (five at most): daughter, wife, mother, widow, and slut. That was it. There were no other roles for them—no free and independent women, no feminism, no selfsufficiency. If you didn’t like it, you could be branded a witch and executed.”

“It is your father who has insisted on calling me a ‘witch’. That’s is simply a term that men give women who are not afraid of them, women who refuse to do as they are told”

“You can kill a man but you cannot kill freedom of expression,unless the minds of men are opressed.”

“Women united can create movements. We can empower entire generations. We can build peace one action at a time. Together we rise. The time is now.”