Rebecca Smith

“The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.”
― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

“Our focus has to be on changing reality, not changing laws.”
― Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

“Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving.”
― Warsan Shire

“So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty by unlocking women's power as economic catalysts. That is the process under way - not a drama of victimization but of empowerment, the kind that transforms bubbly teenage girls from brothel slaves into successful businesswomen.

This is a story of transformation. It is change that is already taking place, and change that can accelerate if you'll just open your heart and join in.”
― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide