I'm inspired by the resilience of people around the world.

Young people aren't the leaders of tomorrow. They are the leaders of today and tomorrow.

Phones are powerful at providing information.

Change always starts with a girl.

Being poor is not like being a victim. Being poor means that you don't have one resource.

I'm a positive person who likes to see things get done.

Collaboration gets me excited.

One of the things that people aren't aware of is how much progress is being made in eradicating poverty and providing a healthier life and longevity for people around the world.

It's harder to be a poor person than anything else.

Gender data is important. If girls don’t have a birth certificate, how do we know how many are marrying as children?

Women and girls have been my passion for my whole life.

Neither gold nor diamonds mine themselves.

My child has to be an artist, because conceiving her will be the best artmy body has ever accommodated.

I don’t have anger towards women. It’s the first script I wrote, I was really young. I got older. It’s told from an angry point-of-view. Young men are crazy strange emotional beings.

People say I slept with seven miss worlds, I didn't. It was only four, I didn't turn up for the other three

One of the hardest parts of writing is writing from the gut or the heart or something like that rather than intellectually.

If they [peple] really hate you, that means you're doing something right.

I'm really enjoying growing up. I feel like so much of my life was in an existential crisis when I was young, and I don't feel as bogged down by that anymore.

New York is like a vacation - no beach required.

But what are wishes, compared with longings?

Loved ones. They are my backbone. They are the people that I turn to when I need the most support and the people who come to me when they are in need.