I think the women in the political positions will push very, very hard to see that there are loans and banks for women in Rwanda.

Full democracy requires the full participation of women. Your voices are vital. The word 'vital' means necessary for life. A democracy, to be fully alive, must include all its citizens.

I think that women often can connect at a heart to heart level.

I can quote you lots of chapters in verse from the bible that are terrible for women. But you can use the bible to either liberate or subjugate women. And it's the same with the Koran.

The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination.

Beneath their surface differences, there are a lot of deep, underlying differences.

I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two qualities: humility and the suspension of the sense of humour.

Chatterers are a menace.

I've never believed in lower wages. Never. Never believed in lower wages, I've never believed in lower wages as an economic instrument.

To change masters is not to be free.

Drink to forget; don't forget to drink.

Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event. [a cynical but perhaps fair assessment]

I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.

Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame