"The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism."

"Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion."

"Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression."

"The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights."

"In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it."

"Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings."

"Never underestimate the power of the river of time shapes the stones of destiny."