Every individual can make a difference every day by making conscious choices.

Be assured that our individual actions, collectively, make a huge difference.

If you do microcredit with men, they tend to quickly drink it. They don't pay you back.

I started as - well, I wanted to be Poet Laureate. And I wanted to be a naturalist. That's how I began. I didn't have any desire to go and be a scientist. Louis Leakey channeled me there. I'm delighted he did. I love science. I love analyzing and making sense of all these observations. So, it was the perfect rounding off of who I was into who I am.

I've always felt you don't have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There's nothing wrong with feeling great empathy for your subjects.

Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings.

I always loved animals. And when I was ten, I decided I had to go to Africa and live with animals and write books about them.