Even in decision-making, we work in self-help groups. That is women coming together in small groups of 10 to sometimes 15 women, where they start to get education about their rights, about clean water and sanitation, about how to have a healthy birth. You can bring in all kinds of education to them that way.

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.

If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.

It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.