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“Almighty God did not create a weak brain for a woman and a highly capable brain for a man.”
Source: Address to the 12th Parliament, Dodoma, 22 April 2021 (translated from Swahili)
Context In her first address to Parliament, answering doubts that a woman could deliver the programme she had just set out.
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