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.

I'm wholehearted about whatever I do.

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

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.

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

Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they're born.

All lives have an equal value.