You know what? I’m going to fly,” she said, “and that’s what motivated me my entire life, that idea I had as a young child. - Esther Mbabazi

I feel like even though there’s just that one person, there’s a thousand more that are excited and are happy about where the world is going for women.

Before you wouldn't find women driving taxis here, and now you see it. There are men who cook now in Rwanda, when, in an African culture, women have to cook. So I think eventually things change. If you really work hard and you prove that you can do something well, I don't think there's a question of you being a woman, it doesn't come into the equation.

I had to go for it. Even though it looked like a long shot, it was my only shot – that’s how I saw it so I went for it, and here I am.