Now we just really need to do the work, which we're doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.

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.

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

I'm wholehearted about whatever I do.

I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.

Contraceptives unlock one of the most dormant, but potentially powerful assets in development: women as decision-makers. When women have the power to make choices about their families, they tend to decide precisely what demographers, economists, and development experts recommend. They invest in the long-term human capital of their families.

Despite the debunking, you have a small group in the last five years that hasn't wanted to vaccinate their children, for instance, for measles. Then, all of sudden, we got an outbreak of measles and kids were starting to die from measles.