Quotes from Stephen Lewis

But I don't want to leave until I see the breakthrough.

Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.

How do you make a million? You start with $900 000.

All I know is that every time I go to Africa, I am shaken to my core.

I'm in a great rage now, as I understand how many lives we have lost.

One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behavior generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn't have a pandemic.

There's neither need nor justification to wallow in the trough of mediocrity.

I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel.

It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.

Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic.

I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel.

Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women.

I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front.

The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground.

I was working for the Socialist International, after I left university in 1959, as a researcher.

Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic.

It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.

It is always the village women who drive these things.

I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level.