We need a lot of thinking and ideas. We need all the innovators, particularly with the new sustainable technologies - how do we get them to affordability so that people can generate clean energy?

Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.

Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind.

No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.

Never look back. Move on. Aim high. Etc.

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

I only take on roles that I'm passionate about. Life is too short to do things that you're not happy with.

If ordinary means I have suddenly got to produce a household of kids and iron Peter's shirts, I'm sorry, I'm not interested.

Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

Love and help others unconditionally without expectation you are creating in effect, this creation will multiply for you in a million ways. Ana Maria Frith, Limitless: Change Your Life

The reverence of God is grace to act right.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

The life and simple beauty of it is too good to pass up

With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader.

My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.

Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present - thoughtfully, justly.

You can be strong and true to yourself without being rude or loud.

People like that don't need a reason apart from "because I can". They have a nightmare and try to make it happen.

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.