It's no accident that the countries that have enjoyed an economic take off have been those that educated girls and then gave them the autonomy to move to the cities to find work

...cultural barriers can be overcome relatively swiftly where there is the political will to do so.

...when women gain control over spending, less family money is devoted to instant gratification and more for education and starting small businesses.

If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.

When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.

I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must have been from you.

I don't like to come at my character from some really technical place.

moving on is a gift you give yourself.

Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.

Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words.

When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.