“Self-education is an essential part of any anti-racist journey, and reading has always been a huge part of my personal learning.”

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.

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.

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

Writing is something you’ll never learn in any university or at any school. It’s something that is within you, and if it isn’t there, nothing can put it there.

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

A boy has to peddle his book.

All one can really leave one’s children is what’s inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy, the only thing that cannot be taken away.

There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.

It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.