I think we all are people that are the product of our backgrounds. It's wrong to think that you're not.

I was not at all apprehensive about ... disease ... [it] had no terrors for me. The thing I most feared in the world was hunger. That was something of which I had personal knowledge.

I got married, I really waited a long time - three days after I graduated.

You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.'

The other thing that happened was that we have a tendency to project our own weaknesses onto another woman. I don't think men do that particularly.

It is an unfortunate fact that in many parts of the world women are considered property. An awful lot of injustice is obviously due to that; not just women's status in the home, but all kinds of laws that are even more discriminating.

I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.