The girls from Tanzania were all between 17 and 25, they had little or no education. At the orphanage they would learn how to feed and clean the children and put them to bed. If a kid said his stomach hurt, one of the girls might hit them.

India would be a new experience. I kind of caught the traveling bug, and they have a lot of need there.

They have no diapers, and they all have diarrhea and they pee all over the place. I'd get pee and diarrhea all over my skirt. You just have to get used to it.

Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

One of the more difficult questions I used to find myself being asked as a United Nations official, especially when I had been addressing a generalist audience, was: What is the single most important thing that can be done to improve the world?...

If I had to pick one thing we must do above all else, I now offer a two-word mantra: "Educate girls.