If you are small and don't particularly want credit for what you are doing, you can achieve a lot.

In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.

I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.

If we took away barriers to women's leadership, we would solve the climate change problem a lot faster

Human rights are inscribed in the hearts of people; they were there long before lawmakers drafted their first proclamation.

Feel empowered. And if you start to do it, if you start to feel your voice heard, you will never go back.

Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts.

To make progress we have to build a multi-stakeholder process, harnessing the appropriate energies.

Climate change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century.

The whole human rights structure is based on the accountability of governments.

An endless war against terrorism can tend to inflate the terrorists, because being at war is attractive to some angry, unemployed, disaffected youth.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

Love resides in my heart, but you are the one who tore apart and you are still blaming my heart for not keeping quiet about it

What else is there to do?

A small temptation can stop a great glory and turn great joy into a great sorrow

The audience perceives only what the actor wants to do to the other actor.

If you stop, you'll lose everything. You've got to keep going.

Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.

Just throw me in my coffin now with these earrings on.

I'm coming from journalism, but at the same time I'm tempted by poetry, politics, and maybe the idea of being a witness, a belief that you can still change things with the image.

I've tried wearing more than one ring on one hand and it doesn't look good. It's overkill, I think. So I think a ring on either hand. Nine times out of ten I'll go for pinky rings, but not always.