Nothing is interesting if you’re not interested.
Grounded in international human rights, gender equality doesn’t just improve the lives of individual women, girls, and their families; it makes economic sense, strengthens democracy, and enables long-term sustainable progress.
Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.
I only take on roles that I’m passionate about. Life is too short to do things that you’re not happy with.
Someone’s got to break the glass ceiling, and once it’s broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind.
No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.
If ordinary means I have suddenly got to produce a household of kids and iron Peter’s shirts, I’m sorry, I’m not interested.
We need a lot of thinking and ideas. We need all the innovators, particularly with the new sustainable technologies – how do we get them to affordability so that people can generate clean energy?
Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.
Never look back. Move on. Aim high. Etc.
I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.
Innovation applied across the board of development is having a huge impact, and can have more. All sorts of technology can provide shortcuts, can overcome obstacles which once seemed insuperable.
Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability – these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.