As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

I think there has to be the sense that once you have climbed the ladder of success, that you don't push it away from the building.

I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

Often if you don't speak up, whatever you thought was stupid to say some man would say and then everyone would say 'as he said'.

The world would be entirely different if it were run by women. I think it is true that we are more seeking consensus and don't have such big egos and have a variety of different ways of trying to get along. But anybody who says that the world would be better has forgotten high school. It depends on who the women are.

Today, I say that no nation in the world need be left out of the global system we are constructing.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.