The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.

Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.

In much of the world, the most dangerous thing a woman can do is become pregnant.

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

For most of history, genocide was just something governments did and nobody blinked.

You could perhaps better tell the story of a place by writing of a tiny village as a sort of prism into the bigger issues the culture was facing. It struck me as a better way to learn about a place, or at least a different way, than just going to interview the president. So I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there. But I'm just amazed.

If only women are talking about women's rights, then the issue has failed from the start. If you think about the Holocaust, that wasn't just a Jewish issue. Civil rights weren't just a black issue.