It is up to the Togolese woman, in particular and African in general, to lead the fight for the respect of her rights and for her emancipation.

One has to be bold enough to assert one’s self and not let the fear of assertiveness penalties cripple your rights as a woman.

No woman should be told she can't make decisions about her own body. When women's rights are under attack, we fight back.

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

When women stand up and defend themselves, it works.

Even the most captured woman guards the place of the wildish self, for she knows intuitively that someday there will be a loophole, an aperture, a chance, and she will hightail it to escape.

You have to know how to defend yourself.

Through my work as both an activist and a politician, I strive to demonstrate that it is our continuing responsibility, as African women, to challenge inequality, resist oppression, and question our exclusion from every level of African society

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

A woman must be able to stand in the face of power, because ultimately some part of that power will become hers.

Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for ALL.

I am determined to defend my rights and maintain my freedom or sell my life in the attempt.

When armed groups confront one another, it is the women who pay.