"We have a choice: to continue supporting the status quo, or to follow our moral compass—and leap."

"The kitchen may just be the right place to develop creative strategies that promote the African woman’s emancipation."

"There is now a sharp contrast between the empowerment modern technology has granted women, and the rights our male-dominated society allows them to enjoy."

"My womb can only carry daughters and I would never trade them for any boys."

"By nurturing positive examples of women in the developing world, we debunk negative stereotypes and give women and girls hope that they too may rise up one day to assume positions of authority."

"The idea that girls and women are disposable commodities still prevails in Cambodian society."

"After the burial of my husband I expected a 'normal' life as a widow, but that was never to be."

"The women of the world know that you have the power and capability to help women and girls across nations."

"Our imaginations cannot thrive when the world gives a deaf ear to the raging acts of violence that are perpetrated against us day and night."

"In my small, close-knit island community, people never speak out about abuse and mistreatment. We only hear the whispers of our suffering elders."