It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.