“Violence against women and girls is one of the most serious human rights issues.”

I really believe that you have to earn things. I don’t feel comfortable unless I have worked really hard.

My friends are all really nice about my fame, they’re just curious really, they ask lots of questions.

We want to empower people to take action and make change and translate their passion into really doing something

Friends capture you best.

Understanding our past is a crucial part of understanding the injustices and inequalities of our present and remaking our future as a nation.

One of the basic things we’re asking states to do is ratify all relevant gender equality standards.

I really love animals and enjoy working with them.

Harry Potter’s like Santa Clause: something you can’t see but wish was real so badly that you end up believing in it.

Young girls are told you have to be the delicate princess. Hermione taught them that you can be the warrior.

I’m a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation.

Small changes, such as thrifting instead of buying new, supporting sustainable brands, and air-drying your clothes, can make a huge difference.

For an actor, it is better to play well (or even not so well) in a bad film, than to not play at all.

There’s nothing interesting about looking perfect.

I want to be a Renaissance Woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I just want to do everything.

I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.

If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by what we are, we can all be freer.

The key to breaking the Taliban taboo against women and the cultural brainwashing that the Taliban imposed upon many Afghans is to get women back into the workforce.

We need a united front against Islamic State and Assad happens to be the decisive power that can fight them. But the situation is preposterous because we also have to respect the calls for change. I would be in favor of a dignified change.

What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.

I love my son. I love my kids, my family. Like I said after I took the misdemeanor plea.

Men have laughed at it, they have scorned it, they have ridiculed it, they have made laws against it.

At the end of the day, it’s hard to win against the NFL. It’s a billion-dollar business, it’s hard to win against it.

Rather it is a place of individuation where a person rubs up against oneself and against the partner, bumps up against the person in love and in rejection

But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…