"As a doctor, when I was minister of health and would go somewhere, little girls would come up to me and say, 'I want to be like you one day, I want to be a doctor.' Now, they tell me, 'I want to be president just like you.' All of us can dream as big as we want."

"As a vibrant force in civil society, women continue to press for their rights, equal participation in decision-making, and the upholding of the principles of the revolution by the highest levels of leadership in Egypt."

"The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards."

"U.N. Women was created due to the acknowledgement that gender equality and women's empowerment was still, despite progress, far from what it should be. Transforming political will and decisions, such as the Member States creating U.N. Women, into concrete steps towards gender equality and women's empowerment, I think is one of the main challenges."

"Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst."

"In a relationship each person should support the other they should lift each other up."

"I am very short-sighted, and if I don't like a situation I take my glasses off."

"Tis but a part we see, and not a whole."