When things are starting to work, you get up at five in the morning thinking, what are we going to do today? You stay up until one in the morning getting it done, and then you start the next day with the same energy, because it's working!

When women get together as a group, it is immensely powerful.

I have a lot to be grateful for.

Poor countries are being forced to deal with an unprecedented health crisis without the means to tackle it . Governments can only show how seriously they are taking this crisis by taking immediate action to provide four million extra health workers and to grant those in need access to affordable medicines.

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.

Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.