It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith.

I don't want other people to decide what I am. I want to decide that for myself.

I've always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can't do it any other way.

If you want to run for Prime Minister, you can. If you don’t, that’s wonderful, too. Shave your armpits, don’t shave them, wear flats one day, heels the next. These things are so irrelevant and surface to what it is all really about, and I wish people wouldn’t get caught up in that. We want to empower women to do exactly what they want, to be true to themselves, to have the opportunities to develop.

Don't feel stupid if you don't like what everyone else pretends to love.

I don’t have perfect teeth. I’m not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn’t want to change anything.