Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.
“I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.”
“Kissing could have begun as a way of sniffing out who's who. From a whiff to a kiss was just a short trip across the face.”