Women reflected on how they might elevate their status and worth in the eyes of men. They decided that the path lay in participating with men in public affairs. Their leap forward was greeted with ridicule and blame, but that did not weaken their will. This was the first time any veiled woman in the Middle East had defied tradition so publicly. This event signaled her new life as the leader of a women's movement in Egypt.
Love has to be put into action and that action is service.
Mother Teresa has transformed countless lives with her extraordinary humanitarian acts. In 1946, she began her missionary work in Darjeeling, India. Since that time she has spent her life helping people whose illnesses or social status has made them outcasts from society. It is not power that corrupts, but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts.