What I love most about Mother's Day is that I am acknowledged and honored for being a mother.

We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.

One thing modeling taught me is that the spotlight can change everything.

Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they step in when complications arise.

If you don't have a dream in life, I don't know what you have. You have to want something beyond your reach; it's exciting when it works out.

In a hundred years, how do you want the world to be? Everybody should get together to make the world a better place.

I don't listen to people who say my dreams are impossible; I just work to prove them wrong.

Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.

There's a saying in Africa: To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.

Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own long-term national interests.

I'm a mom. I'm from Ethiopia. I gave birth in the U.S. and had all the proper care available to me. If I had given birth in Ethiopia - I don't know if I might have even survived it.

I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.

I think fear... tends to hold people back from really pursuing their dreams. Basically: LEAP! And the net will appear.

I'm not as big a soccer fan as people might imagine, being British.

Just don't let go or you may drown.

I'm very good at being out of work.

Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man.

Being rejected is not nice, and it never gets any easier no matter where you are in your career.

There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.