Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.

We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.

Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.

Men's memoirs are about answers; women's memoirs are about questions. Most male authors want to look good in their memoirs and have a place in posterity, while most women know that posterity is what happens when you no longer care. Women want to connect with others here and now; they couldn't care less about legacy!