Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.

I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.

What we really yearn for as human beings is to be visible.

We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.

I think I still have a great sense of adventure and trust, and am surprisingly idealistic given all the horrible things I've seen since I was 25. I think how I have changed is that I have a much deeper understanding of the dark forces in the world, of power.

We have to remember that the girls and the women are most isolated and violated and victimized and made invisible in those very societies where our men and our boys feel disempowered, unable to provide.

Failure can be an incredibly motivating force.