If you can't go to secondary school, the boys get to go and the girls don't, you're locked into a cycle of poverty, because you don't have a chance.

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.

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

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.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.

Those who think that you have no BOSS in your own business!Indeed, you have many bosses, “ THE CLIENTS

By helping yourself, you are helping humankind. By helping humankind, you are helping yourself. That's the law of all spiritual progress.

Bing Crosby said that Armstrong is "the beginning and the end of music in America," and he wasn't far wrong.

I wonder how well she sleeps at night, and what kind of dreams she has. I wish I could step into them like she steps into mine.

When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.

How often have not the demons called 'Nix,' drawn women and girls into the water, and there had commerce with them, with fearful consequences.

It was a sphincter at the top of a black bowl. A fitting commentary on the FAYZ, Diana thought. A giant sphincter.

Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.