I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.
The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.
We, as Americans, have won the lottery of life and the distinction between us and people living in Kalighat is not that we are smarter, not that we're harder working, not that we're more virtuous - it's that we're luckier.
If only women are talking about women's rights, then the issue has failed from the start. If you think about the Holocaust, that wasn't just a Jewish issue. Civil rights weren't just a black issue.
If you just try to make rational arguments about why people should care about Congo and how 5 million people have died, then people tend not to be receptive. But once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.
So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty by unlocking women's power as economic catalysts. That is the process under way - not a drama of victimization but of empowerment, the kind that transforms bubbly teenage girls from brothel slaves into successful businesswomen. This is a story of transformation. It is change that is already taking place, and change that can accelerate if you'll just open your heart and join in.
If i had to do it all over again? Why not, I would do it a little bit differently.
Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.
In April 1975 I was born and the Vietnam War ended. I could not let any American die in war before seeing an episode of Scrubs.
Crossroads, what a disaster. Hundreds of millions of dollars wasted and no one is held responsible. . . . people ought to be asking, 'What are you in business for?'