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If we are here in solidarity, with this beauty of unity, in our pain, we have to pledge to do something.

— Graça Machel A mother in pain: Graça Machel speaks on the gender based violence and xenophobia (2026)

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The role tradition has played in the relationship in the family between men and women has been detrimental to women.

Graca Machel: Traditional practices put women in positions of inferiority (2009)

Education, particularly for girls, is a catalyst for reducing child and maternal deaths and lifting people out of poverty.

We need to make the message much clearer -- that aid means saving lives, it’s not a luxury.

West must help Africa on poverty, education: Machel (2009)

Tradition has developed into practices which overtime have become beliefs which in essence they put women in a position of inferiority.

Graca Machel: Traditional practices put women in positions of inferiority (2009)

“When you educate a girl, you educate a nation.”

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Democritus Freeman (1948)

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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