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Quote by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

“Of course, I am the first democratically elected woman president in Africa, and that raises a lot of expectations. Because I represent the aspirations of women all over Africa, I must succeed for them. I must keep the door open for women's participation in politics at the highest level. That is both humbling and exciting.”

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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, born on October 29, 1938, served as the President of Liberia. She is the first female president elected in Africa and is renowned for her leadership in the peace and reconstruction process in Liberia. more

“I firstly don't think of myself as an activist, I never have. I always say that, I think this word "activist" is relatively recent one. I don't remember when people started being called that or what it means. It reduces both writers and activists, it makes it seem as though a writer's job is to just keep people entertained with best-selling books and the activist's job to keep on repeating the same thing without a great deal of subtlety and intelligence. I don't think either is the case.”

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Author:Arundhati Roy

“It's OK just to be a writer, who writes about the society in which he lives and the issues that most important. Now how can that not be a writer, it always was. It's just recently that writers have been reduced to these playthings of the market.”

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Author:Arundhati Roy

“Sometimes the state and the constitution are more enlightened than society.”

Sometimes States Constitution Enlightened

Author:Arundhati Roy

“I actually did a quick survey of how caste plays out in contemporary India. The idea that democracy and development have in some ways eroded caste turned out not to be the case, that it has in fact been entrenched and modernised.”

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Author:Arundhati Roy