Constantly worrying about your reflection and criticizing your body, shape and size is an act of violence against yourself.

I think people say you shouldn't work with children or animals, but you must only work with children.

Without the ice, the earth will fall

I'm an atheist. I suppose you can call me a sort of libertarian anarchist. I regard religion with fear and suspicion. It's not enough to say that I don't believe in God. I actually regard the system as distressing: I am offended by some of the things said in the Bible and the Qur'an and I refute them.

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.

It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.

I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs.