If you empower women, you can change the world.

My father says that almost the whole world is asleep, everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement.

Even in the first world, expectations are not as high for women as they are for men. We get that message subtly, but in the third world, it isn't subtle. Girls are isolated and encouraged not to talk to one another.

There are assumptions made about the way you look. I'm always surprised when people don't think I'm smart.

I wouldn't have thought of myself as a person who could guide anybody and then it turned out that I can.

[On Lisa Kudrow:] She's like the best kind of jazz there is. You don't know what note she's going to hit and it's always a surprise.

I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it's just got a bad flue.