It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the harsh progress of mankind.

As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance. As long as outmoded ways of thinking prevent women from making a meaningful contribution to society, progress will be slow.

The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.

To awaken the people, it is the women who must first be awakened. Once she is on the move, the family moves, the village moves, the nation moves.

Freedom cannot be achieved unless the women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression.

The progress of any society depends on the progress of education.