We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.

Women want to be free to choose from the same range of options that men take for granted. In our quest for equal pay, equal access to education and opportunities, we have made great strides. But until women can move freely and think freely in their homes, on the streets, in the workplace without the fear of violence, there can be no real freedom.

You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality

If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.

I started The Body Shop in 1976 simply to create a livelihood for myself and my two daughters, while my husband, Gordon, was trekking across the Americas. I had no training or experience and my only business acumen was Gordon's advice to take sales of £300 a week. Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

Irritation is a great source of energy and creativity.

By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many.