When women are able to live in a safe and secure environment, they can participate effectively in the economy and society. This helps overcome poverty, reduces inequalities and is beneficial for children's nutrition, health and school attendance. Every woman and girl has the right to live in safety in her home and community.
Grounded in international human rights, gender equality doesn’t just improve the lives of individual women, girls, and their families; it makes economic sense, strengthens democracy, and enables long-term sustainable progress.
Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.
No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.
Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind.
Never look back. Move on. Aim high. Etc.
I only take on roles that I'm passionate about. Life is too short to do things that you're not happy with.
Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.
If ordinary means I have suddenly got to produce a household of kids and iron Peter's shirts, I'm sorry, I'm not interested.
Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.
Never look back' is my philosophy.
I'm not into power for the sake of it.
We need innovation. We need great ideas that can be simply and effectively produced all over the place.
I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.
I only take on roles that I'm passionate about.
We need a lot of thinking and ideas. We need all the innovators, particularly with the new sustainable technologies - how do we get them to affordability so that people can generate clean energy?
Adopting and promoting sustainable production practices require concerted effort, something which in practice is too often missing or insufficient. Making this shift at the scale required demands forward-looking leadership in the public and private sectors alike.
I don't know that you're ever going to persuade New Zealanders that they're not going to own their own homes and I'm not going to try.
Innovation applied across the board of development is having a huge impact, and can have more. All sorts of technology can provide shortcuts, can overcome obstacles which once seemed insuperable.
I think it's inevitable that New Zealand will become a republic and that would reflect the reality that New Zealand is a totally sovereign-independent 21st century nation 12,000 miles from the United Kingdom.
I felt really compromised. I think legal marriage is unnecessary and I would not have formalised the relationship [with husband Peter Davis] except for going into Parliament. I have always railed against it privately.
We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy.
If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.
In terms of protecting ourselves, the main issues are around how do we protect our borders [from illegal migrants and livestock and plant diseases], how do we protect our fisheries?
It is a very small minority point of view and I think, through continuing to set the tone of tolerance, acceptance, and diversity, you just have to further marginalize such people. Hopefully one day nobody will think that way.
