If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are we can all be freer. And this is what HeforShe is about. It’s about freedom.

IT IS TIME THAT WE ALL SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM INSTEAD OF TWO SETS OF OPPOSING IDEALS.

There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith.

Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong... It is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum not as two opposing sets of ideals.

Gender equality, historically has been predominantly a women's movement for women. But I think the impact of gender inequality and how it's affecting men hasn't really been addressed.

My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder.

Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!

I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls.

I don't have makeup on all the time, but when I want, I have fun with my friends choosing clothes and putting nail polish on.

Feeling beautiful has nothing to do with what you look like. I promise.

All I can do is follow my instincts, because I'll never please everyone.

Light cannot enter a dark room without illumining it.

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.

I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.

I have a good instinct for what's real and what's not. I don't have to second-guess myself.

A woman tries to get all she can out of a man, and a man tries to get all he can into a woman.

Expectation brings frustration. Private ambitions bring failures.

Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have things?

Politics is like driving. To go backward put it in R. To go forward put it in D.

Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.