China was probably the worst place in the world to grow up female 100 years ago. There was foot binding, female infanticide, concubinage, and child marriage, and now it's one of the better places. So I really do feel that we're on the right side of history here.

I think when hundreds of thousands of lives are on the line, you might have to set aside some principles.

The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding

There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women.

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

We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur

If one is talking to a finance minister of a poor country, moral arguments tend not to get very far. But if you can argue that their country is going to grow 2 percent faster per year if they can just harness the power of the female half of the population more effectively, that is an argument they consider.