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Sheryl WuDunn: The challenge that women and girls face is not an easy topic to talk about
but we really think it is the moral challenge of the century. Susan Sarandon: These problems
exist because we created them, so it's up to us to fix them. Hillary Clinton: The way
that Nick and Sheryl use stories to break through the indifference that still exists
when you talk about women and girls is exactly the right way to go about it. George Clooney:
We understand the story always. This is how people get engaged. Sheryl WuDunn: Nick and
I wanted to galvanize people into action because we know it takes a world to bring about this
change. We're utilizing every tool and platform available to get the message across. Nicholas
Kristof: We are going to be going on a journey to some of the places in the world where the
repression of women and girls is truly at its most extreme. Olivia Wilde: I read Half
the Sky and I thought that's really what I want to do. I want to go and see things for
myself. Nicholas Kristof: You've had the traffickers hold a gun to your head? Nicholas Kristof:
It still does seem as if something is wrong if thousands of thousands of girls are getting
*** and in all of Freetown, only one *** is prosecuted. Gabrielle Union: You know what
lasts a lot longer than beauty? Being smart lasts a lot longer than being pretty. Edna
Adan: This little hospital built on a garbage dump, has reduced maternal mortality rates
of the women who come here to one quarter of the national average. Amie Kandeh: We need
to be able to have our voices heard. Urmi Basu: Our biggest challenge here is to create
opportunities. Convince the mothers every single day of her existence that your daughter
does not have to be bound by fate. She needs to be allowed the power to create her own
fate.