When We Plant Trees, We Plant The

Because I Was A Woman, I Was Vulnerable. It Was Easy To Vilify Me And Project Me As A Woman Who Was Not Following The Tradition Of A 'good African Woman.'

I Have Always Felt That Perhaps Women Have Sometimes Almost Embraced The Same Values As Men, And The Same Character As Men, Because They Are In The Men's World, And They Are Trying To Fit Into A System That Men Have Created. And Maybe In Truth When There Is A Critical Mass Of Women Who Play That Role In Governments, Then We Will See Whether Women Can Really Manage Power In A Way That Is Less Destructive Than The Way That Men Have Used Power.

An Individual Citizen Cannot Protect Himself From The Powers Of Large Corporations Or External Governments. It Is The Responsibility Of The Government To Protect Its Citizens.

Every Person Who Has Ever Achieved Anything Has Been Knocked Down Many Times. But All Of Them Picked Themselves Up And Kept Going, And That Is What I Have Always Tried To Do.

One Of The Reasons Why I Say We All Need To Work Together To Save The Congo Forest, Because If We Don't Save The Congo Forest, The Amazon Forest And The Southeast Asia Forest, If Those Forests Release The Carbon They Are Trapping At The Moment, Much Of What You Will Be Doing In The North Will Be Negated By The Amount Of Carbon Released Into The Atmosphere.