Employers must make far-reaching changes to employment terms and conditions for women: Equal pay for equal, decent work.

There is no great force for change, for peace, for justice and democracy, for inclusive economic growth than a world of empowered women.

Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it.

My mother always told me that inaction is not an option. And neither is going it alone.

Educate a woman, you educate a nation.

With technology, we can achieve universal access to secondary education within a generation.

I do not believe that the majority of men in the world would like to hurt women, but they can be very complacent, and that is just as bad.

Your little choices become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life.

The great novels are deterrents. A Merck's manual on how not to live.

Truth is a tendency.

I was an open, smiley and gregarious child. I could make friends in 30 seconds wherever I went.

The only conflict that is possible in Soviet culture is the conflict between good and best.

The key of success is for you to set one big, challenging goal and then to pay any price, overcome any obstacle and persist through any difficulty until you finally achieve it

I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.

Advice is like kissing: it costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do.

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go.