• The reason I made women's issues central to American foreign policy, was not because I was a feminist, but because we know that societies are more stable if women are politically and economically empowered.

    Madeleine Albright: The reason I made women's issues central to American foreign policy, was not because I was a feminist, but because we know that societies are more stable if women are politically and economically empowered.
    Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.