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Women Had Always Been Thought Of As Looking After The Family When Men Go And Earn An Income And They're The Bread Earner And So On. So There Is A Kind Of Generation Of Inequality, [and], On Top Of The Fact, Women Have Pregnancies And Periods, [and] When The Children Are Very Small, There Are Greater Demands On Their Time. So One Way Or Another Women Have Had A Pretty Rough Deal In The Past, And There's No Reason Why That Should Continue, And Any Country That Has Tried To Remedy That Has Succeeded In Doing So.

It Was Incredible To Me That Members Of One Community Could Kill Members Of Another Not For Anything Personal That They Did But Simply Based On Their Identity.

Famines Occur Under A Colonial Administration, Like The British Raj In India Or For That Matter In Ireland, Or Under Military Dictators In One Country After Another, Like Somalia And Ethiopia, Or In One-party States Like The Soviet Union And China.

When The Nobel Award Came My Way, It Also Gave Me An Opportunity To Do Something Immediate And Practical About My Old Obsessions, Including Literacy, Basic Health Care And Gender Equity, Aimed Specifically At India And Bangladesh.

I Think That So Many Of Our Abilities To Do Things Depend On Interaction With Each Other.