My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.

More Quotes by Abigail Disney

I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.

When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.

I love everybody. I think my totem animal is a Labrador Retriever.

The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.

The fact is, funnily enough, that the people who seem to be most committed to causes also seem to be least invested in anyone actually talking to each other.

When you strengthen women, you strengthen the world.