I firmly believe that business and just straight up rational business growth, profitable business growth and social impact are not mutually exclusive."

VOA: special.2011.07.29

I saw the dead piled up. I do not want to see that again."

VOA: special.2010.07.15

"I believe women are not confident enough in my country to speak up.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

I could not wait to grow up and be off on my own.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

"Rejection has always made me into a person that does not want to be seen anywhere, except when I'm all made up and go out as Eartha Kitt.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

Still,she says her books reflect the Nancy Drew stories that she read as a child: "Things that I read as a kid keep cropping up in my own work whether I realize it or not.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

"I am still a fan. I have not kept up with the latest ones, to tell you the truth,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

But all I kept thinking about was 'Man,I do not want to get up tomorrow morning with that feeling,'".

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

but I'm not going to do homework before I go see a sequel to be up on everything;

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

She points to the poem, 'It was not death, for I stood up', as an example.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

And many like Sylva are uneasy. "I am not working, the country is messed up.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

She says,"I wanted my kids to grow up with a mom,not a diva."

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

"I just want to have some rules in place so that when these guys make dumb decisions, you do not end up having to foot the bill.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

It was not Death, for I stood up, And all the Dead, lie down- It was not Night, for all the Bells Put out their Tongues, for Noon.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22