I'd make a comment at a meeting and nobody would even acknowledge me. Then some man would say the same thing and they'd all nod.

If you think that you are where you are just because you worked hard, it is easy to become self-righteous and make classist moral judgments about others.

We need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something.

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

We have to start looking at the world through women's eyes' how are human rights, peace and development defined from the perspective of the lives of women? It's also important to look at the world from the perspective of the lives of diverse women, because there is not single women's view, any more than there is a single men's view.

America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.

There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.