What's the best way of communicating in the world today? Television? No. Telegraph? No. Telephone? No. Tell a woman.

Strengthen the rural areas and you will find less people migrating to urban areas. You give them opportunity, self respect & self confidence, they will never go to an urban slum.

[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.

Listen to the people on the ground. They have all the solutions in the world.

Our job is to show how it is possible to take an illiterate woman and make her into an engineer in six months and show that she can solar-electrify a village.

I had a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and that almost destroyed me.

The prime minister is 12 years old. She looks after 20 goats in the morning, but she's prime minister in the evening.

School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.

If people don’t sleep with me I just rape them. Because right is not given but taken.

She took no pleasure in knowing…whatever he asked of her, she would do.

The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.

I refused to take no for an answer.

Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.

The introduction of heartache began as a child.

I love cooking and baking.

When I asked Imran Khan for an autograph he picked up his bat to hit me.

The people were just so lovely and accommodating and had really interesting questions and it was just interesting to see how the show is actually received in so many different countries.