Sanitation issues in the developing world affect women more than they affect men.

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

In the United States, there's definitely some controversy about birth control in general, and I think we needed to split the debate and have people realize that we actually agree as a country about contraceptives. Over 93 percent of American women say they use contraceptives, and they feel very good about it.

Sometimes it's the people you can't help who inspire you the most.

If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world? It's a man. Who's left to care for the kids back at home? The woman is.

You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it's increasingly girls, not boys, who don't know how to read.