I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.

As a vibrant force in civil society, women continue to press for their rights, equal participation in decision-making, and the upholding of the principles of the revolution by the highest levels of leadership in Egypt.

My message to women is: Women: We can do it. We are capable of doing almost anything, but we must learn we cannot do it all at once, we need to prioritize.

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.

During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So if we wanted to change women's lives, we need to deal with those root causes.

There does not have to be trade-off between growth and social protection. A democracy does not mean much if it doesn't respond to the needs and will of its people.

Every market we go to, we have a domain-specific language. Every domain-specific language, underneath, has an architecture.

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.

If you're looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you've got to go to Wisconsin.