With technology, we can achieve universal access to secondary education within a generation.

There is no great force for change, for peace, for justice and democracy, for inclusive economic growth than a world of empowered women.

Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it.

My mother always told me that inaction is not an option. And neither is going it alone.

Educate a woman, you educate a nation.

Employers must make far-reaching changes to employment terms and conditions for women: Equal pay for equal, decent work.

I do not believe that the majority of men in the world would like to hurt women, but they can be very complacent, and that is just as bad.

If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.

The most difficult part of dating as a single parent is deciding how much risk your own child’s heart is worth.

I'm still not sure if I was a victim or not... and if I was, who was my abuser?

Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity.

When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.

The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.

I have two vintage typewriters. One just about works and the other hasn't a hope in hell, bless it. But they're both beautiful, and they'll stay with me just as long as there's a roof over my head.

The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.