Fact and fiction are different truths.
Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
We are stronger when we listen,and smarter when we share.
At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
If I've learned one thing in life, it's you can never go back.
It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.
I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.