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

Women share this planet 50/50 and they are underrepresented, their potential astonishingly untapped.

The stairs of our industry must be accessible to all. Let’s climb.

The stairs of our industry must be accessible to all. Let’s climb.

Supporting women’s and girls organisations is the single greatest hope we have for worldwide transformative change.

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.

Reading is good for your imagination.

I’m reading so much and exposing myself to so many new ideas. It almost feels like the chemistry and the structure of my brain is changing so rapidly sometimes.

I’m a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.

I’ve always said, stuff the engagement ring! Just build me a really big library.

If you truly pour your heart into what you believe in, even if it makes you vulnerable, amazing things can and will happen.

The reality is that if we do nothing it will take 75 years, or for me to be nearly a hundred before women can expect to be paid the same as men for the same work.

Girls should never be afraid to be smart.

Don’t be ashamed if you don’t like what others pretend to love.

I can be 100 years old but I will always be proud to say I was in Harry Potter.

I’ve always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can’t do it any other way.

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

I honestly believe going independent is the future. Social is changing, Spotify is changing, everything is changing.

One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.

I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system – that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.

You overrate my capacity of love. I don’t posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.

Don’t believe everything your mind tells you.

I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.