Women empowering other women.They get the psycho-social support. They become part of a community.

I'd rather support the issues I truly believe in than give my vote to parties that court votes at the time of the election. I like to think that my vote strengthens the green foundation stone.

Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?

I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.

Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves.

Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness.

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.