“Taking action means saying ‘no’ to indifference. If there is a war to be waged, it is the war against the indifference which is eating away at our societies.”

Men, I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. Gender equality is your issue too.

If not me, who? If not now, when?

Sex & World Peace shows us how gender inequality is a form of violence that impacts everything from population growth to economies to regime type.

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

It’s important to read because it’s really good for your vocabulary.

Who here actually thinks I would do 50 Shades of Grey as a movie? Like really. For real. In real life.

I’m the worst liar ever.

Books are a friend, books are an escape, books are a means to empowerment and books are a means to understanding yourself better and in a world around you. They are everything.

Gender equality can only become a reality if we harness the transformative power of solidarity across professions and across borders.

I hope that having my life and having an education will lengthen my career.

Being passionate is not what makes you a girl, it’s what makes you a human.

I truly, truly believe that beauty is something that comes from within.

Really I was open-minded about doing anything, but the one thing I didn’t want to do was get myself into a corset, because I was worried I’d never get out again.

We really damage our own confidence when we put ourselves down, so I try not to.

I love fashion. I think it’s so important, because it’s how you show yourself to the world.

I never liked the idea of being a rebel.

Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.

Action illustrates desire.

Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.

It is better to have done something than to have been someone.

I can’t choose how i feel. But i can choose what I do about it.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.

An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.