“You ask how I feel to be the first female president in southern Africa...” — Joyce Banda Quote

You ask how I feel to be the first female president in southern Africa? It's heavy for me. Heavy in the sense that I feel that I'm carrying this heavy load on behalf of all women.

I'm indeed a mandasi seller, and I'm proud of it, because the majority of women in Malawi are like us, mandasi sellers.

You can still sit under the tree where Dr. Livingstone negotiated with slave traders to set people free.

Lula da Silva was my hero when he was president. I Googled him so many times. The fact that he got 20 million people out of poverty... that happened by encouraging entrepreneurship, by supporting small business.

When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women.

I love all women. Women are sublime beings. I love all of it: their eyes, their noses, their bodies.

As it turns out, my grandmother, my mother, my wife, and my daughter are all women, and I like those people. I'm concerned about the issues that they face in their lives. So I'm a feminist, but that's not all I am.

'Believe women' only works as a rule of thumb when all women are good. That myth falls flat outside Victorian England.

We have to be intentional with including trans women, all women, all marginalized people. Whether we say 'Me Too' or call ourselves feminists or strive to create a diverse workplace that reflects the world we live in, it's all about being intentional.