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

All I can do is follow my instincts, because I’ll never please everyone.

As an actress I take roles I find interesting.

I keep telling myself that I’m a human being, an imperfect human being who’s not made to look like a doll.

I like books that aren’t just lovely but that have memories in themselves.

I’ll be proud to say my country is committed to preventing violence against women.

The less you reveal, the more people can wonder.

Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it’s a process. It’s often not cool to be the person who puts themselves out there.

I don’t want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

Black Lives Matter and women’s voices are a vital part of any movement for change.

If I’ve learned anything, it’s really just to stop trying to find answers and certainties.

Believe in yourself and go for it.

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

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.

There has no doubt to be fundamental research in science, but applied research is equally important for new improvements and changes in our techniques.

Fitness is the key. You need to have strokes and stamina and agility; you need to exercise really well. On-court and off-court are equally important.

Equality is what does not exist among mortals.

Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

I have worked really hard since the age of eight, so each phase of my life is equally important.

Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.

When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.

I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.