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

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.

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.

We need a lot of thinking and ideas. We need all the innovators, particularly with the new sustainable technologies - how do we get them to affordability so that people can generate clean energy?

History is not nostalgic art, but history is ibrah, lessons, that we can pull to the present, to prepare for a better future, ” -105

If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.

I divide the world into learners and non-learners.

I'm a terrible cook. I am not allowed to go in the kitchen anymore after I almost burned down the apartment in New York.

One of these days, you're going to fall in love with some guy, and you're not going to know what to do with yourself.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

You pay for good days by then having bad days. You pay for joy with pain.