"For it isn't enough to talk about Peace.  One must believe in it.  And it isn't enough to believe in it.  One must work at all."  Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

"The world of humanity has two wings, one is women and the other men.  Not until both wings are equally developed can the bird fly.  Should one wing remain weak, flight is impossible.  Not until the world of women becomes equal with the world of men in the acquisition of virtues and perfections, can success and prosperity be attained as they ought to be..." (Abdul Baha)

"The traditional decision making structures do not enable women or members of our society to openly communicate, especially within the rural population, and the poor.  Because we use a low power transmitter, communities are encouraged to share openly, to talk to each other, to relate their story and discover common experiences.  When people in our country able to share their opinion freely and safely, we can say we are truly experiencing democracy."  femLINKpacific

"I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves" Mary Wollstonecraft (1792)

"It is not gender which is destroying our culture, sometimes it is our interpretations of culture, which have destroyed gender equality" (Cambodian NGOs calendar, 2000)

"As a woman I want no country, as a woman, my country is the whole world"

(Virginia Woolf)

"Our community media work is about involving women and young women in the development, production and distribution or delivery of their own media initiatives ...whether it is when to stage a broadcast and identify the broadcast segments and also direct the production, pick up the camera to tell their own stories.'

"Women move the cradle with one hand, and the world with the other" (Afghan women's conference 2003)