Microfinance is an incredibly powerful tool ... but we must move beyond micro-hopes and micro-ambitions for women.

We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.

If you're talking about entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict settings, then you must talk about women, because they are the population you have left.

We do not invest in victims, we invest in survivors.

I'm a really bad driver. When I'm in L.A. my husband always has to park the car for me, because I'm likely to hit something.

The United States will not be in Afghanistan forever.

Single mothers are raising more of America's children than ever before.

A lot has been said about single mothers. Most of it has been less than flattering.

Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap - not one.

One truth doesn't refute another. Truth doesn't lie in the object, but in how we see it.

It is a blessing for a man to have a hand in determining his own fate.

Passion is the very fuel of inspiration. Artists, of all people, must be willing to share their passions with the world.

You're the one who held me up Never let me fall

I don't have any experience with film schools. I suspect that they're useless, because I've had experience with drama schools, and have found them to be useless.

A tall young man sped swiftly up the wide stone steps leading to the doorway of a mansion in one of Chicago's most fashionable avenues.

There are few writers of note, of any country or of any age, from whom quotations might not be made in proof of the love with which they regarded Nature.

Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.

As the world gets dumber and dumber, I feel more and more at home.

I started doing improv my sophomore year.