Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

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.

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.