We should be teaching young girls to take up space. Nothing is as important as taking up space in society and cementing yourself.
Interpretation
Encouraging young girls to assert themselves and occupy their rightful positions in society is vital for gender equality.
Zozibini Tunzi's quote emphasizes the importance of empowering young girls to occupy space in society confidently. It reflects a necessary shift towards instilling self-worth and presence in young girls, ensuring they understand that their voices and contributions are valuable and essential for societal progress.
In practice
During a women's leadership conference to inspire young girls to be assertive.
I think the most important thing... is leadership. It's something that has been lacking in young women and girls for a very long time, not because we don't want to but because of what society has labeled women to be. I think we are the most powerful beings in the world and that we should be given every opportunity.
I think we are afraid to take up space. We are afraid to be amazing. As soon as that fear leaves us and we start building that confidence of being unapologetic about being great, then i think we can get into that space of having a lot of women leaders who are just fearless.
People speak about diversity and representation like the world is ready. But when it actually happens, people can't take change. They can't deal with it. Which is why we have things like cyberbullying, which is why people will send you nasty DMs, say nasty things in your comments. Because they're just not dealing with it, they're not ready.
I grew up in a world where a woman who looks like me, with my kind of skin and my kind of hair, was never considered to be beautiful.
Women are constantly being taught how to defend themselves against attack from men. I would like to shift the perception. I want to say that that responsibility should no longer rest on the shoulders of women alone.
I didn't enter Miss S.A. because I thought I was the most beautiful woman in S.A., I entered because it's one of the few platforms that give women the ability to lead and I knew I had a powerful voice and message to send out.
I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
I went out of my way to play games I didn't like or find interesting. Those ended up being a lot more informative for me. At home, I have literally thousands of games, and I think of them as pearls of wisdom from my predecessors.
For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers; besides, even the productions that are only addressed to the imagination, raise the reader a little above the gross gratification of appetites, to which the mind has not given a shade of delicacy.
We shouldn't be profiting from our students who are drowning in debt while giving a great deal to the banks. That's just wrong.
Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.
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