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International Women’s Day 2018 marks great change – women standing up everywhere and saying, ‘we are not invisible … we are present … we are here.’ As women march, strike, shout for equal rights, we hope that this year really does signify the beginnings of a better world, not just based on gender, but rather on kindness, love and humanity, in which all of us can walk with grace.

In previous years, we have celebrated women in their own words and it seems fitting to continue this. Following is writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s speech, ‘We should all be feminists’.

I am angry. Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change; but, in addition to being angry, I’m also hopeful. Because I believe deeply in the ability of human beings to make and remake themselves for the better.”

 

Also of interest: ‘The not-so-invisible woman – 150 greats in their own  words‘; ‘Thanking Maya Angelou – a voice that shall never be lost‘; ‘Jolene‘; ‘I have a dream‘