Economic growth which strips out the planet’s ecosystems is not sustainable

Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.

Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind.

No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.

Never look back. Move on. Aim high. Etc.

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

I only take on roles that I'm passionate about. Life is too short to do things that you're not happy with.

If ordinary means I have suddenly got to produce a household of kids and iron Peter's shirts, I'm sorry, I'm not interested.

Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

People with no human values are worse than zombies.

God wants to wipe away your past and lift your burdens. Do you let Him?

We obviously feel destiny and purpose and do what we do, but within that are ways to help others and to inspire others and to support and encourage people.

I don't think the people of Chicago should be robbed of their birthright to be perennial losers.

Live deep instead of fast. I think this is what Thoreau meant.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

I so desperately want my words to be indicative of how deeply and completely I love my people.

The Winnipeg Art Gallery has a good collection of Inuit art, and most of what I've seen I've seen there or in the few books I have. I should spend more time researching.

The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.