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

The fact that 98 percent of women in [the U.S.] who are sexually experienced say they use birth control doesn't make sex any less sacred. It just means that they're getting to make choices about their lives.

That's universal - we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what's not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.

If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.

In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men.

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

As a woman finds economic opportunity, even if she's only earning a couple of dollars a day, if she can save it on her phone, she then makes different decisions for her household than her husband might.