We've moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we're moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial – that we're creating incomplete human beings.

That amazing power of being able to stand with total courage in the face of total power and not be afraid. That is stri shakti.

When you don't take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage.

Something is very, very wrong when people don’t have access to drinking water, and Coke creates its market out of that scarcity.

Nobody defines it as something women shouldn't be doing. In a way, there are more mathematicians, more doctors, more scientists in India than there are in this country. We even had a woman head of state, and that's something the United States has yet to catch up with.

Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.

It is often too late by the time the government reacts.