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

So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.

The process of education in the oldest profession in the world is like any other educational process, in that it requires time andeffort and patience; it can only be acquired by taking one step at a time, though the steps become accelerated after the first few.

A great task has been completed and an even larger one remains.

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.

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.'