"We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women."

"I was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities, of flying, if I may say, of making my hopes and dreams a reality."

"The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies."

"Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women."

"It is a subtle truth that stand firm when justice demands it, even if you stand entirely alone."

"Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one."

"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."

"Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time."