Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men.!

Nawal El Saadawi, The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World

We all deserve to have our stories told. And we all have much to gain by walking in other people’s shoes. !

Kerry Washington

In order to be a mentor, and an effective one, one must care. You must care. You don’t have to know how many square miles are in Idaho, you don’t need to know what is the chemical makeup of chemistry, or of blood or water. Know what you know and care about the person, care about what you know and care about the person you’re sharing with.

Maya Angelou

A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.

Diane Mariechild

Don’t be afraid to speak up for yourself. Keep fighting for your dreams

Gabby Douglas

No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens.

Michelle Obama, lawyer and writer

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Alice Walker, writer

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

Audre Lorde, writer and feminist

If one woman suffers, we all suffer.

Jenny Munro, Wirad Juri Elder and activist

By insisting on a gender/neutral language, gender inequalities do not decrease. To the contrary, they become even more prominent.

Ana Martinoska, academic professor

This year I want to be wished a Happy International Women’s Day by having all the workers’ rights and getting the salary that I deserve.

Textile factory worker from Štip

By insisting on a gender/neutral language, gender inequalities do not decrease. To the contrary, they become even more prominent.

Ana Martinoska, academic professor

As a female director of documentary films, it is very important to me that the woman is presented with dignity, as a woman-fighter, as a heroine, exactly as we know her in real life.

Biljana Garvanlieva, directors

The smell of roux at 6 am, making lunch before going to work, is a specific local cultural phenomenon that has long reflected the state of women in our society.

Rumena Bužarovska, academic professor

If we are not in prison, it does not mean that we are free. For freedom we have to fight with the soul and the body. Even if every day someone is trying to take it away.

Irena Mulachka, journalist

Women belong in all places where decisions are being made... It shouldn't be that women are the exception.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Do we still need feminism? Feminism is emancipation, and emancipation means liberation from oppression. And to get rid of oppression, which in our heads is done by primitive models for male-female relations, is something we all must do, men and women alike. As well as the society.

Jasna Šoptrajanova