Quotes from Leymah Gbowee

If you read the life of great men and women who made important changes in history, there are two common features: One, they were angry at the state of affairs and, two, they were people of faith.

There is something in this world that every individual can do. God has created all of us with something unique to contribute.

I always tell people, anger is like liquid. It's fluid, it's like water. You put it in a container and it takes the shape of that container. So many people you see in prison, unleashing war on their people, they are angry, and they take their anger and put it into a violent container.

'I wish for a better life. I wish for food for my children. I wish that sexual abuse and exploitation in schools would stop.' This is the dream of the African girl.

I'm now on a journey to fulfill the wish, in my tiny capacity, of little African girls.

It's time for women to stop being politely angry.

Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same.

We must continue to unite in sisterhood to turn our tears into triumph. There is no time to rest until our world achieves wholeness and balance, where all men and women are considered equal and free.

Activism is something that no one can fake. You get angry. You cry. But you never throw in your towel, because that anger is what is propelling you to further action.

Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies.

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.

I have come to one conclusion: All that I am, all that I aspire to be, all that I was before, is by the grace of God. There are so many women in Africa, and outside Africa, who are more intelligent than I am.