All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.

When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.

Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.

Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.

If we don't empower women, we don't allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.

Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.

We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.

You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they're born.

When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development

When your dreams get fulfilled in dreams, wouldn’t you rather skip reality?

Something that is set can be broken, so are society standards and limits.

I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

In World War II all these countries were completely against each other, complete opposite. Now we're getting them all together, through the idea of music.

It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.

I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.

See what a good actress I am? I'm just typing over and over, "You're a good person, Mary Lynn! Hang in there! You can do it!"

All over the world when you test men and women for facial cue recognition, women test... better. Its a negotiation tool.

Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them.