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I've Thought About What Is An Alternative Word To Feminism. There Isn't One. It's A Perfectly Good Word. And It Can't Be Changed.

It's Harder To Get Out Of Bed When You've Failed.

Motherhood Was The Great Equaliser For Me; I Started To Identify With Everybody.

There's So Much Stigma Around Hiv/aids. It's A Challenging Issue, And The People That Already Have Been Tested And Know Their Status Find It Very, Very Hard To Disclose Their Status, To Live With That Virus, And To Even Seek Out The Kind Of Information They Need. This Experience Of Going To South Africa A Decade Ago Really Woke Me Up To The Scale Of The Hiv/aids Pandemic In Sub-saharan Africa, How It Was Affecting Women And Their Children. I Haven't Been Able To Walk Away From It.

It Was Very Easy For Me To Dedicate Myself To The Care Of Mothers, Help Them Have Healthy Babies, Help Them Be Healthy, Help Them In A Place Where They Don't Have Opportunities. Success Breeds The Excitement To Continue Going. It's Harder To Get Out Of Bed When You've Failed.