All Lives Have An Equal Value.

Women Speaking Up For Themselves And For Those Around Them Is The Strongest Force We Have To Change The World.

I've Travelled Extensively In The Last 16 Years - To Slums In Bangladesh, To Townships In South Africa, To All Kinds Of Places In India, Etc. When I Would Go And Talk To Villagers About Something Like Vaccines, If I Stayed Long Enough, The Women Would Bring The Conversation Around And Say: "what About This Family Planning Tool? We Can't Keep Having The Number Of Children We're Having."

I Am Inspired By The Women I Meet Everywhere I Go. They Have To Work So Hard Just To Make Sure Their Families Survive, But Somehow They Stay Optimistic And Do Everything In Their Power To Make The Future Better Than The Past.

If I Really Believe All Lives Have Equal Value, And If I Use Contraceptives, Which I Do, And If I'm Counselling My Son And My Two Daughters To Use Them, How Am I Not Serving The Women Who Don't Have Access To The Contraceptives They Need?

Even In Decision-making, We Work In Self-help Groups. That Is Women Coming Together In Small Groups Of 10 To Sometimes 15 Women, Where They Start To Get Education About Their Rights, About Clean Water And Sanitation, About How To Have A Healthy Birth. You Can Bring In All Kinds Of Education To Them That Way.