I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.

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!

I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.

Medicine comes with hope: the hope of having a healthy child, the hope of being able to raise your family.

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.

There needs to be a shift in consciousness; there needs to be an absolute wake-up call before society can actually make the kind of incredibly significant changes that need to happen.

I have a reputation for being cold and aloof, but I'm so not that woman. I'm passionate. I love my girls, being with my girlfriends, getting involved with issues that affect other women and children who are suffering.