“ Rights and empowerment are interconnected: unless a substantial number of women in a community come to believe that they have rights and demand to exercise them, right remains an abstraction. Mahnaz Afkhami
“ The new information technology, indifferent to human suffering, does not accommodate humane needs unless we harness it and make it do so. Mahnaz Afkhami
“ Women’s status in society has become the standard by which humanity’s progress toward civility and peace can be measured.”-Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images Mahnaz Afkhami