"I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet"

"The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men"

"To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea"

"If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies"

"The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity"

"I believe that we all have a responsibility to take care of our planet and to protect the natural world for future generations"

"Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?"

"Peace is the first thing the angels sang"

"In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace"

"I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war"

"At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil"