Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts.

In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.

I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.

If we took away barriers to women's leadership, we would solve the climate change problem a lot faster

Human rights are inscribed in the hearts of people; they were there long before lawmakers drafted their first proclamation.

Feel empowered. And if you start to do it, if you start to feel your voice heard, you will never go back.

To make progress we have to build a multi-stakeholder process, harnessing the appropriate energies.

Climate change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century.

The whole human rights structure is based on the accountability of governments.

An endless war against terrorism can tend to inflate the terrorists, because being at war is attractive to some angry, unemployed, disaffected youth.

If you are small and don't particularly want credit for what you are doing, you can achieve a lot.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

The rights of man are poor things beside the eyes of hungry children. Their hurts are keener than the soreness of injustice.

Marriage is not easy. You have to decide to work. That's what it really comes down to: two people deciding to stay together or not.

We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.

Each person should display her own particular gifts for study. For no one is safe who strives beyond her abilities; and thus it is safer to trust in reason than in men’s opinions.

If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No."

I was given a chance and I took it.

I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.

To a mouse, cheese is cheese. That is why mouse traps are effective.

I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time.