The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.

I live in the land of delight - of just walking in the street, and the sun is shining, and I'm on my way to Starbucks and I'm feeling good. I also live for those aha! moments when you understand something new, when you see two things fitting together to make a surprising third. There's actually a chemical that's produced in the brain by learning that gives you that little ecstatic moment of, Oh, that's why.

Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.

The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do.

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

A movement happens when people are inspired by somebody, but they do it themselves. You don't wait for someone else. You do it yourself.