Ethnicity should enrich us; it should make us a unique people in our diversity and not be used to divide us. - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

"One has to look at my life story to see what I've done. I've paid a heavy price that many people don't realize."

Mine has been a long journey, a lifetime journey to Oslo. It was shaped by the values of my parents and by my two grandmothers – indigenous Liberians, farmers and market traders – neither of whom could read or write. They taught me that only through service is one’s life truly blessed.

Once the glass ceiling has been broken, it can never be put back together, however one would try to do that.