Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.

Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.

We are stronger when we listen,and smarter when we share.

At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.

If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.

Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.

Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.

When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.

You cannot kill an ideology with a bullet. You can only kill it with a better idea.

For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.

We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.

You know what really fries my Puerto rican pancakes?

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

In the future, violence would clearly become a valuable form of social cement.

A feast is made for laughter and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.

You can't just have a fight scene. In my opinion, it has to be a character moment or story moment.

I remember reading The Bluest Eye when I was a young parent, and something opened in me. That's the highest aspiration.

She paused. That's just my way of saying I would've killed you if you'd died.

The grossest form of this injury of the body to ornament it, is in tattooing. Next, the piercing the ear all around its rim, piercing the nose and the lips to introduce rings or bars of jewelry.

Whether or not you can become great at something, you can always become better.

I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.