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

I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.

I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.

Even in our own agriculture strategy, if we got a great new drought-resistant seed and we managed to get it distributed in the system, we just assumed that it would reach female farmers. That's a false assumption, because women don't interact with agro-dealers. So if you don't develop specific programming to ensure that seed gets in a woman's hands, then the extra income [generated by higher-yielding crops] goes into her husband's hands.

Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I'm seeing a lot of countries look at this now.

We have to look at it country by country. In places like the developing world where, as you say, in Mumbai, it's about five hours' gap between what a woman does and a man does. You have to start by recognizing the problem and talking about it, trying to change those roles.

Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in