If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.

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.

Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.

Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.

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

I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.

Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.