If you don't invest in the woman, empower her, give her the things she needs to lift her family up, you're just not going to make the progress that you want to make. But if you put her at the centre, you can change a lot for that family, and it has ripple effects through the economy.

Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don't get there by just pushing an outsider's point of view.

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

The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.

If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I'm counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don't have access to the contraceptives they need?

If you don't have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won't change the trajectory for students.

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