At an individual LEVEL just as much as a corporate level, this notion of if you're not really passionate about the WORK you're doing in a WORLD of mounting pressure, you're going to experience more and more stress. You're going to BURN out. You're going to BECOME marginalized.

I THINK when it comes to WOMEN who write or who fancy ourselves 'hip downtown literati', there is a certain contempt for being overly sexual or really LOOKING for boyfriends. We tend to be marginalized as some 'Sex & The City' Carrie Bradshaw chick-lit dummies who just WANT shoes and a ring.

It's about supporting the many talented artists and filmmakers out there trying to CREATE work from that marginalized point of view. Go out and BUY tickets to their movies and PLAYS, support their crowd sourcing campaigns, show the industry that there is a viable audience for this work.

As a society, I THINK OLDER women are marginalized, but I think that has CHANGED so much in the last twenty years.

Virtually all of AFRICA's civil WARS were STARTED by POLITICALLY marginalized or excluded GROUPS.

I have SPENT all my life advocating on behalf of the poor, oppressed and marginalized. As a social JUSTICE and human rights activist, and now as PRESIDENT of the Republic of Malawi, I have a deep appreciation for the challenges of those on the MARGINS of SOCIETY.