In a hundred years, how do you want the world to be? Everybody should get together to make the world a better place.

We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.

One thing modeling taught me is that the spotlight can change everything.

Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they step in when complications arise.

If you don't have a dream in life, I don't know what you have. You have to want something beyond your reach; it's exciting when it works out.

I don't listen to people who say my dreams are impossible; I just work to prove them wrong.

Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.

There's a saying in Africa: To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.

Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own long-term national interests.

I'm a mom. I'm from Ethiopia. I gave birth in the U.S. and had all the proper care available to me. If I had given birth in Ethiopia - I don't know if I might have even survived it.

Prenatal care is one of the most effective ways to reduce maternal mortality because it identifies complications or high risks before emergency situations.

I prefer the skylineof a shelf of books.

Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.

Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.

The world will be saved by beauty.

Choice is our point of power.

All those songs reflect all the people that live within me.

In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.

I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.

Perfection is not very communicative