You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.

There's a lot of women's organisations, but they're all working separately. If you get people together, as a collaborative voice, it's strong.

I didn't want to be a Barbie doll. I didn't want to be a passive entertainer. It wasn't how I wanted to present myself.

I guess what I'm passionate about is, I see so many things that I find that there's no real solution to, and you're only here for such a brief moment in time, even if you live to be a hundred years old. Yet, what happens within that time frame? So many things happen.

Each individual is as individual as their fingerprints, and I think that's extraordinary.

I stand on the shoulders of giants that have gone before me, in terms of affording people like myself, women, the access to democracy, the vote, medical treatment, education, everything that I've been given. It's all been earned.

Just having medicine isn't equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel safe.