The anti-globalization movement is one of the biggest globalized events of the contemporary world, people coming from everywhere, —Australia, Indonesia, Britain, India, Poland, Germany, South Africa—to demonstrate in Seattle or Quebec. What could be more global than that?

Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.

Empowering women is key to building a future we want

[Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.

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

I think that so many of our abilities to do things depend on interaction with each other.

Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems.