[To organize a school] looks much more difficult in theory than it does in practice.

Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be.

It seems to me to be kind of inescapable that one has to be interested in the issue of gender and gender equality. I don’t really expect any credit for going in that direction. It’s the only natural direction to go in. Why is it that some people don’t see that as so patently obvious as it should be?

When the government is trying to penny-pinch and, at the same time, trying to keep a defense expenditure and so forth, which are regarded as quote unquote essential, the education is regarded inessential.

Anything that increases the voice of young women tends therefore to reduce the fertility rate.

The best hope for peace in the world lies in the simple but far-reaching recognition that we all have many different associations and affiliations, and we need not see ourselves as being rigidly divided by a single categorization of hardened groups, which confront each other.

the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute