People learn to lead because they care about something.

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

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.

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.

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act ... It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them.

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.