My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

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.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn't think I should do less than my brothers.

I am still married, yes - no children. I have Benzo, though; he's my dog, a Lhasa apso.

We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.

If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built.

Tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit.

I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs.

Whenever you are ready, or if you never are, my heart is yours.

If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.

Why are they so sad?” I asked. “Well, they’re dead,” Carter speculated.