"As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic."

"When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins."

"Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates."

"For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected."

"Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom."

"Her beauty didn't do her any good and she couldn't use it in any positive way or manipulative way. I just hope that people will look and see and believe in that hope of love, that hope of freedom, even if it was just for a limited time."

"If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that."

"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."