Somebody That I Used to Know,' like a lot of the record, was a bit of a struggle to finish. It was written fairly quickly - I wrote it in November 2010 - but it took six months to find Kimbra and really realize she was the right vocalist to make the female part come to life. There were constant hurdles.

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

Michelle Bachelet

Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.

Stephen King

I didn't want to be thirtysomething and not know what I was going to do. I was quite afraid of that, there were quite a lot of aimless kids around, in that 'other' side of my life, who didn't really know what to do because they always had a bank balance to fall back on and they were quite lost.

Stella McCartney

I never trusted the women i was involved with to tell the truth,because the truth never changes,but as i knew so well,people did.I knew it wasn't everyone,some women did have staying power,but it was impossible to tell which ones they were.Women should have come labelled-it would have made life so much simpler.

Mike Gayle

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Lydia M. Child

Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heinrich Heine

Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.

Imelda Marcos

I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.

Patrick Dempsey

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Carl Sagan

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

A. A. Milne

He used statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts; for support rather than illumination.

Andrew Lang