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

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

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.

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

Robert Todd Lincoln, a.k.a. Jinxy McDeath.

Let kindness be the flower of your heart and fragrance of your mind. Let it fill the world with peace, joy and the fragrance of kindness.

Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won't have to go around search for it.

Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul.

The Rudderless World is not shaped by vague metaphysical Forces. It is not God who kills the Children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to the Dogs. ... It´s us. Only us.

I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.

When the hell is Warren Moon going to retire? I mean, this guy is older than the cuneiform in Nebuchadnezzar's tomb.

The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.

The thing is, is that every terrorist attack we've had since 9/11 has been legal immigration.