I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it.

I've never owned a pair of jeans, but I had a fantastic denim boiler-suit and it got a lot of wearing.

Graduation day was a milestone in the most important journey of all - to the centre of oneself.

Again and again, I learn how much friendship enriches my life, bringing warmth, assurance, humour, inspiration, a sense of security. It depends on honesty, trust, loyalty. It's about giving. It's for sharing the good times, but also the tough times, hurt, grief, sadness.

For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all at the same time.' How important it is to take very good care of yourself, of your mental and physical and spiritual wellbeing; it's hard to do. It's easier to be a workaholic than to have a truly balanced life.

Seek out a person whom you admire and respect for the support you need - that we all need from time to time.

The bonds that women share around the world, wherever we come from, they're very powerful and they have an ease of communication because we share those very important things of our families, our mothering, of improving opportunities for the next generation.