I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.

Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.

I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.

People didn't think that a woman could be the Secretary of State, when my name was out there...but then the Arab Ambassadors at the UN said 'We have no problem dealing with Ambassador Albright, and we would have no problem dealing with Secretary Albright.'

Our collective experience has shown that when women have the power to make their own choices, good things happen.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.