The best lesson that I've learned from my mother is that she just never accepted no for an answer and I think that's something that has stayed with me.

I tend to gravitate toward Proenza Schouler and Alexander Wang. Their designs are accessible and easy.

When countries commit to protecting vulnerable lives, they should receive support from those who can provide it in order to make their programs a success.

I don't listen to people who say my dreams are impossible; I just work to prove them wrong.

When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.

No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.

My children are still young, but I try to talk to them about giving back and how important it is, just to look at the world, be invested in things, to be passionate about things, to have a dream.