I think that [Donald] Trump is frankly a bigot. He has a racist history.

So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty by unlocking women's power as economic catalysts. That is the process under way - not a drama of victimization but of empowerment, the kind that transforms bubbly teenage girls from brothel slaves into successful businesswomen. This is a story of transformation. It is change that is already taking place, and change that can accelerate if you'll just open your heart and join in.

Write letters to your editors, write to your members of Congress, and write to your news stations.

In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights.

The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted

I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.